The military institution specified that 16 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down over the Belgorod region, 14 over the Nizhny Novgorod region, nine over Voronezh, three over Bryansk, and one over Kursk, Oryol, Kaluga, and Smolensk.

The national air transport agency, Rosaviatsia, previously reported that temporary restrictions have been imposed at Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod airports to ensure flight safety.

Saratov Governor, Roman Busargin, informed that the fall of drone fragments in the courtyard of a residential building caused several injuries and one death.

Meanwhile, Kursk Governor, Aleksander Khinshtein, stated that two people died in that province due to a drone attack.

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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