According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, during the night of September 14th, Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed a total of 399 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over several regions of Russia and the Black Sea. The most serious consequences were reported from Sochi in the Krasnodar region, where debris from downed drones injured five people, including a child.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the attacks took place between 8:00 PM Moscow time on September 13th and 8:00 AM the following day. The UAVs were reportedly shot down over the Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Rostov, Smolensk, and Krasnodar regions, as well as over Crimea and over the waters of the Black Sea.
According to local authorities, the Rostov region was particularly affected. Governor Yuri Slyusar stated that approximately 50 unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Aksai, and sixteen other districts of the region. In the Voronezh region, air defense systems reportedly intercepted eight drones, according to Governor Alexander Gusev.
The most serious reports of injuries came from Sochi. The Krasnodar regional emergency center reported that falling debris from unmanned aerial vehicles injured five people, including a child. One adult was taken to the hospital, while the other injuries were treated on an outpatient basis.
According to Russian authorities, three private houses were also damaged in the attack. Fragments of drones fell on several other locations, including near a non-residential building, a tunnel, and in the yard of a private house. Emergency and specialized services were deployed to the scene.
Damage was also reported in the Rostov region. In the Aksai district, debris hit the 18th floor of an under-construction building. In Rostov-on-Don, a car was damaged, and additional fragments of an unmanned aerial vehicle were found in the yard of one house.
In the Kamensky district, according to local authorities, a pressure wave or falling debris shattered windows in two apartments. In the Myasnikovsky district, power lines were damaged, causing a power outage for approximately thirty private houses. In the Neklinovsky district, roofs and windows of houses, as well as several cars, were damaged.
The scale of the nighttime attack, according to Russian data, was one of the most significant drone operations affecting multiple regions of European Russia and the Black Sea coast simultaneously.
gnews.cz - Jaroslav Holý