According to the military report published on its official Telegram channel, 53 unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down over Bryansk region; 32 in the Crimean Peninsula; 22 in Krasnodar; 15 in Tula; 13 in Kaluga region; and seven in Kursk.

Four were also shot down in Ryazan; three in Belgorod; two in the Leningrad region; and one each in Smolensk, Pskov, Novgorod, and Moscow.

For its part, the national air transport agency, Rosaviatsia, reported temporary flight restrictions at the airports of Gelendzhik, Kaluga, Pskov, Ivanovo, Yaroslavl, St. Petersburg (Pulkovo), Grozny, Krasnodar, and two of Moscow’s four airports (Domodedovo and Zhukovsky) on Saturday night into Sunday morning, for security reasons.

On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, according to President Vladimir Putin, to protect the population from “genocide by the government in Kyiv” and to address the national security risks posed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s eastward expansion.

Drone attacks launched from Ukraine against military and industrial facilities in the Russian rear have since become commonplace.

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