In the period from 23:00 Moscow time on January 5 to 7:00 Moscow time on January 6, air defense systems on duty destroyed 129 Ukrainian aircraft-type drones over Russia, reports press service of the Ministry of Defense.
In the Bryansk region, 29 drones were shot down, another 15 were in the Belgorod region. The attack of 13 drones was repelled in the Yaroslavl region, ten in the Novgorod region, and nine in the Smolensk region. Seven devices were intercepted in the Kursk and Penza regions, six each in the Tver region and Bashkortostan.
Five drones were destroyed in the Astrakhan and Rostov regions, and four air defense systems were deployed in the Kaluga region. In addition, two drones were shot down in the Moscow region, Oryol and Leningrad regions, one each in the Voronezh, Kostroma, Tula, Tambov and Ryazan regions, as well as Crimea and Tatarstan.
On the night of January 6, a fragment of a drone hit the windows of an apartment in a nine-story building in Tver. As a result one person died. The head of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, reported earlier about a drone suppressed by electronic warfare. Drone debris fell near the village of Berezhki, including on the territory of the compressor station. No one was hurt.
Head of the Penza region Oleg Melnichenko from the evening of January 5 reported twice about repelled raids. Having written about one of them in his Telegram channel, he clarified that there were no casualties or destruction as a result of the attack.
At the same time, some Russian airports suspended operations last night, including the capital Domodedovo and Zhukovsky, as well as the air harbors of Kaluga, Samara, Ulyanovsk and St. Petersburg. They later resumed work.
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