MOSCOW, October 23. /TASS/. Air defense systems intercepted and destroyed a total of 443 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones overnight over Russian regions, the Defense Ministry said.
Falling drone debris injured three people in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
TASS has compiled key details of the aftermath.
Scale
- Air defense systems intercepted and destroyed a total of 443 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones overnight over Russian regions, the Defense Ministry said.
- The Defense Ministry said the drones were shot down over the Smolensk, Nizhny Novgorod, Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Kaluga, Tula, Oryol, Lipetsk, Tambov, Voronezh, Ryazan, Vladimir, Rostov, Volgograd, Perm and Krasnodar regions, as well as over the Moscow Region, the republics of Tatarstan, Udmurt and Crimea, and the Black and Azov Seas.
- More than 150 drones flew toward the Moscow Region overnight, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on Max messenger.
- On-duty air defense systems destroyed most of the drones at long range and intercepted five as they approached Moscow.
- Air defense forces shot down 20 Ukrainian drones over the Smolensk Region in western Russia overnight, regional Governor Vasily Anokhin said on Max.
- The Defense Ministry forces and the Bars-NN unit (a regional volunteer defense unit) repelled an attack by 19 drones in the Nizhny Novgorod Region in western Russia overnight and during the morning, regional Governor Gleb Nikitin said on Max.
- Air defense systems destroyed 12 Ukrainian drones over the Tula Region in western Russia overnight, regional Governor Dmitry Milyaev said on Max.
- Air defense forces brought down drones overnight over the Sholokhovsky, Kamensky, Verkhnedonsky and Millerovsky districts of the Rostov Region in southwestern Russia, regional Governor Yury Slyusar said on Max.
Aftermath
- Falling drone debris injured three people in the Gorodetsky municipal district of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, according to preliminary information, regional Governor Nikitin said on Max.
- The injured were hospitalized and are receiving the necessary medical care.
- The attack also damaged several residential buildings, an educational facility and infrastructure.
- Schools in the Gorodetsky municipal district have shifted to remote learning, Nikitin said.
- Emergency response teams are operating at the affected sites, and the extent of the damage is being assessed.
- Traffic on the dam of the Nizhny Novgorod Hydroelectric Power Station in Zavolzhye was temporarily suspended due to the drone threat.
- The municipal administration said emergency services are taking all necessary measures to ensure safety at sites where drone debris fell.
- Public transportation was temporarily suspended on some routes due to road restrictions but later resumed in localities across the district.