On January 11, the Ministry of Defense of Russia announced that during the day, air defense systems intercepted or destroyed 85 Ukrainian drones that flew into the territory of the Russian Federation. This is reported by rosZMI.
In the city of Kotovsk, where an attack by Ukrainian drones took place, a drone fell on two five-story buildings. The governor of the Tambov region Yevhen Pervyshov said that three people received minor injuries from glass fragments.
Ukraine uses self-made drones to strike military facilities, airfields and oil refineries in the deep rear of Russia. These strikes are aimed at disrupting the logistics of a much stronger enemy. However, the Ukrainian side rarely discloses information about such operations, which makes it difficult to assess their scale.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 31 drones were destroyed over the Black Sea, 16 over the Voronezh region and the Krasnodar region, 14 over the Sea of Azov, four over the Belgorod region, two over the Tambov region, one over the Kursk region, and one over the Kursk region. — over the occupied Crimea.
“From what we can tell — it’s no longer a secret — Ukrainian long-range unmanned aerial vehicles can hypothetically operate at a distance of up to 2,000 kilometers,” – noted the spokesman of the military intelligence of Ukraine Andriy Yusov.
