The key facts

  • In the Bryansk region, a Liutyi UAV with a moped engine marked Vittorio Gilardoni S.r.l. was intercepted
  • The Russian Ministry of Defense reported 235 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones destroyed on the night of November 1
  • According to the governor, more than 100 UAVs were shot down over the Nizhny Novgorod region

Interception of the Liutyi drone

Russian servicemen, using a Lis drone, intercepted a Ukrainian Liutyi attack drone equipped with a moped engine. This was told to TASS journalists by the senior officer of a drone countermeasures crew with the call sign Cherny (Black). According to him, the UAV was shot down in a border district of the Bryansk region, and after the impact, everything burned, leaving only the engine. The engine bore the marking of the Italian company Vittorio Gilardoni S.r.l. The serviceman also stated that the drone was heading toward Moscow or Saint Petersburg.

Scale of the overnight attack

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that on the night of November 1, over the country's territory, 235 airplane-type Ukrainian Armed Forces drones were destroyed. The attacks were repelled in the Moscow region and 16 other regions, including Saratov, Kursk, Penza, Nizhny Novgorod, Tver, Ryazan, Voronezh, Smolensk, Oryol, Tambov, Bryansk, Kaluga, Tula, and Belgorod. The governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin, said that more than 100 UAVs were shot down over the region, and after the raid, damage to one of the enterprises was found in the Kstovo district.

Context

Earlier, a Russian serviceman claimed that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had adopted a new drone tactics. Reports about the details of the interception and the engine marking come from a single serviceman and have not been confirmed by independent sources in available publications.