Russia shoots down Ukrainian drones and missiles

Russia shoots down Ukrainian drones and missiles

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Russia shoots down Ukrainian drones and missiles

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Sunday that air defences had shot down six Ukrainian drones over Russian regions and two Ukrainian missiles over Crimea.

Air defences shot down a Ukrainian drone in the southern Krasnodar region at around 0500 GMT, Russia's defence ministry said.

At around 0600 GMT, Russia shot down three drones over the western Smolensk region and at 0700 GMT shot down two more over the region, Russia's defence ministry said.

"An attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack with two operational-tactical Grom-2 missiles was thwarted," the ministry said. It said the missiles were shot down over the Dzhankoi region.

Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-backed head of Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, said there were no casualties.