The Russian Defense Ministry stated on its Telegram channel that Russian military air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 34 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory and the Black Sea within three hours.

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According to Russia Today, the ministry indicated that all the hostile aerial drones that were destroyed during that time were of the aircraft type.

According to the ministry, 14 drones were destroyed over the Black Sea, nine of them over the Belgorod region. Four drones were also intercepted and destroyed over Crimea, three over the Voronezh region, three over the Rostov region, and one over the Kursk region.

The Russian Ministry of Defense noted that the enemy carried out these attempts to attack civilian facilities and vital sites between 8 pm and 11 pm Moscow time.

For his part, Artem Korniako, spokesman for the Russian Civil Aviation Agency"Rosaviatsiya", announced the imposition of temporary restrictions on flights at several Russian airports.

According to him, this included the airports of Penza, Saratov, Tambov, Volgograd, and Gelendzhik, encompassing aircraft landings and takeoffs. Korniako explained that these measures were taken for security reasons.