By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON – Russia Defence Ministry on Sunday said that it shot down four Ukrainian guided aerial bombs and 160 drones in past 24 hours, media reported.
The Russian Defence Ministry said its air defence systems intercepted 33 Ukrainian drones over the country’s western border regions, media reported.
The ministry said that on-duty air defense systems downed 13 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, 12 over the Bryansk Region and one over the Kaluga Region”.
It added that 20 more fixed-wing drones were destroyed within the following two hours eight over Bryansk, seven over Smolensk, three over Kursk and two over Kaluga.
Russia accused Ukraine of ramping up attacks ahead of the meeting between the US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
Russian Foreign Ministry in a statement shared on X stated that 22 people have been killed and another 105 injured due to Ukraine’s shelling and drone strikes over the past week.
The ministry also shared a map marking the attacked areas in the Russian territory.
