The Russian Ministry of Defense has reported that Russian air defense forces have successfully destroyed nine drones and intercepted eight others over the Black Sea and Crimea. This development was reported by TASS.
According to witnesses who spoke to the Telegram channel SHOT, several loud explosions were heard in the vicinity of the cities of Saki and Novofedorovka at around 4:10 am. These areas are home to military airfields.
Authorities have stated that all services are currently operating normally.
It was later revealed that debris from one of the downed drones fell onto the roof of a private house in Andreevka, resulting in a small fire that is being extinguished.
On November 7th, at 4:24 am, the Governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, wrote on his Telegram channel that the Russian air defense system was operating in the city’s waters.
By that time, five drones had already been shot down.
On November 4th, the air defense system successfully intercepted missiles over a shipbuilding plant in Kerch. Debris from the intercepted missiles fell onto dry docks. The air defense forces shot down the missiles near one of the largest shipbuilding enterprises in Eastern Europe, the Butomy plant in Kerch. Sergey Aksyonov, the head of Crimea, reported that some debris from the downed missiles fell on the territory of one of the dry docks. An air alert was previously declared in Sevastopol. More details can be found in the article on “Gazeta.ru”.
Previously, Russia developed a new system for countering drones.
