The military institution specified that 12 unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down over the Kursk region, 10 over Bryansk, eight over Belgorod, four over Tula, three over Yaroslavl, two over Rostov, one over Novgorod, and one over Samara.

The national air transport agency, Rosaviatsia, reported that temporary restrictions have been imposed at the airports of Volgograd, Kaluga, Penza, Samara, Pskov, Yaroslavl, and Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airport to ensure passenger safety.

Russia has been conducting a special military operation in Ukraine since February 24, 2022, to protect the population from “the Kiev government’s genocide” and counter national security risks, according to President Vladimir Putin.

Drone attacks launched from Ukraine on military and civilian targets in the Russian rear have become routine.

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