08:35, 1 July 2025

The Ministry of Defense reported 16 drones shot down over the Rostov region

UAV wreckage. Illustration created by "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program

Last night, air defense forces intercepted 60 unmanned aerial vehicles over regions of the country, including 16 in the Rostov region and 14 over the Azov and Black Seas.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, drones were shot down at night in Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Novoshakhtinsk, Millerovsky, Myasnikovsky, Aksaysky, Neklinovsky and Matveyevo-Kurgansky districts. In Taganrog, windows were broken in an apartment building, cars parked nearby were damaged, and in the village of Vesely in the Myasnikovsky district, fragments from a downed drone damaged a house.

"During the past night of July 1, air defense systems on duty destroyed and intercepted 60 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles," the Russian Defense Ministry reported in its Telegram channel in the morning.

According to the department, 16 UAVs were shot down over the territory of the Rostov Region, 11 over the waters of the Sea of Azov, and three more over the Black Sea. Drones were also neutralized over Crimea, Kursk, Saratov, Belgorod, Voronezh and Oryol regions.

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/412702