The military institution specified that 21 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were shot down over the Rostov region, seven over Voronezh, five over Belgorod, four over the Peninsula of Crimea, three over Bryansk and the same number over Kaluga, two over Oryol and the Black Sea, one over Kursk, and another over Tula.

Rostov Governor Yury Slyusar announced that the Ukrainian drone attack was the largest against that province this year, and caused a fire at an industrial plant in Novoshakhtinsk. Thanks to timely air defense intervention, no casualties were reported.

In the Voronezh region, the crash of an UAV forced to suspension of about 20 trains on the Zhuravka-Rainovskaya route, Russian railways RZD informed.

Meanwhile, the national air transport agency, Rosaviatsia, reported that temporary restrictions have been imposed at the Volgograd, Saratov, and Kaluga airports over the last day to ensure flight safety.

Since the beginning of the special military operation on February 24, 2022, drone attacks launched from Ukraine on military and civilian targets in the Russian rear have become routine.

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