MOSCOW, December 18. /TASS/. Overnight, air defenses intercepted or destroyed 47 Ukrainian drones in the skies over several Russian regions, Russia’s Defense Ministry said.
Two crew were killed and three others on board a vessel sustained injuries in a drone attack in Rostov-on-Don. A drone attack on Bataisk, another city in the Rostov Region in southern Russia, left seven people injured, of whom one has died.
TASS has compiled key facts about the impact.
- Between 11:00 p.m. Moscow time (8:00 p.m. GMT) on December 17 and 7:00 a.m. Moscow time (4:00 a.m. GMT) on December 18, alert air defense capabilities intercepted or destroyed 47 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over Russian regions, the Defense Ministry reported.
- According to Russia’s top brass, 31 UAVs were shot down over the Bryansk Region, five over the Black Sea, four each over Crimea and the Belgorod Region, and three over the Rostov Region.
