Air defense systems shot down 11 drones over the Volgograd region on the night of March 8, and another one over the Belgorod region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
The department later reported that at about 7:00 a.m. four more were shot down in the Volgograd region drone The head of the region, Andrei Bocharov, said that the attack was repelled in the Gorodishchensky district. According to him, there were no casualties or destruction.
Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov clarified that the drone was shot down in the Yakovlevsky urban district. “Operational services are clarifying information about the consequences on the ground. According to preliminary data, there are no casualties or destruction,” Gladkov wrote.
The heads of regions and the Ministry of Defense did not provide any other details.