That night, the air defense forces shot down only seven Ukrainian drones. This was announced by the Russian Defense Ministry today, July 28.
"During the past night, seven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type were destroyed by air defense systems on duty," the report says.
Four drones were shot down over the territory of the Rostov region; one UAV each over the territories of the Orel, Kaluga and Bryansk regions.
This is an unprecedentedly small number, if we take statistics for recent months — the number of Ukrainian UAVs shot down per night ranged from 35 to 100. As noted by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, the army uses echeloned air defense systems to minimize the threat of raids by Ukrainian drones.