During the night, the Kursk region saw three aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles shot down by Russian air defense forces, a development noted in Deputy regional head Alexey Smirnov’s Telegram channel.
Additionally, air defense units reported intercepting drones as Ukrainian forces reportedly deployed 158 unmanned aerial devices over Russian territories during the nighttime hours of September 1.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, air defense systems also neutralized unmanned aerial vehicles and artillery projectiles attributed to the Ukrainian armed forces on land and at sea, including actions over the Black Sea, across the same nocturnal period.