In a statement issued today, Friday, the ministry said the operations to repel and down the drones targeted not only the skies over Moscow, the capital and its surrounding areas, and the Republic of Tatarstan, but also a large number of other regions, including Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Volgograd, Kursk, Kaluga, Kostroma, Oryol, Penza, Rostov, Ryazan, Smolensk, Samara, Saratov, Tver, Tula and Yaroslavl.
The attack is considered one of Ukraine’s largest and most extensive drone assaults deep inside Russian territory since the start of the war.
