Russia’s defence ministry said Monday, October 6th, that it had downed 251 Ukrainian drones overnight, in one of Kyiv’s largest retaliatory attacks on its neighbour since the war started three years ago.
“Over the past night, air defence alert systems intercepted and destroyed 251 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles,” the ministry wrote on Telegram.
It said Russian forces downed 40 drones over Crimea as well as 62 over the Black Sea. A fuel tank at the depot exploded as a result of the attack, the RBK-Ukraine media outlet said. Dozens more were shot out of the skies over the Kursk and Belgorod regions, as well as others, the ministry said.
Russia has kept up a near-constant barrage of drone and missile attacks—particularly on Ukraine’s energy networks—as the war continues. Ukraine has increasingly responded with its own strikes targeting Russian oil refineries and other energy infrastructure.
