During the day, air defense systems shot down 11 multiple launch rocket systems: HIMARS, Grad and Vampire, as well as the Tochka-U tactical missile. This has been reported press service Russian Ministry of Defense.
The military department also reported that 146 Ukrainian drones and drones were destroyed during the day. Targets were hit in the settlements of Kremennaya, Lugansk People’s Republic, Zelenopole, Aleksandrovka, Donetsk People’s Republic Codema, Mirnoye, Vyshneve, Shevchenkovo, Konskie Razdory, Ocheretovatoye, Zaporozhye region and Rybalche region of the Kherson region.
On March 12, air defense systems shot down an unmanned aircraft type vehicle near the city of Kirishi in the Leningrad Region. Regional President Alexander Drozdenko sureIt was stated that there was no loss of life or damage in the drone attack. He didn’t give any other details.
Drone attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against Russian regions have not stopped since the previous night. With data According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 25 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the regions of Russia on the night of March 12: two unmanned aerial vehicles on the territory of the Moscow region, one in the Leningrad region, seven in the Belgorod region, 11 in the Kursk region, one in the Bryansk region, one in Tula, two in Orlovskaya.
Previously residents of Kursk warned about the functioning of the air defense system.