The key facts
- Russian Defense Ministry: 972 Ukrainian UAVs destroyed in 24 hours, 46 airplane-type drones on November 4
- Drones shot down over 13 regions, including Tyumen, Sverdlovsk and Saratov regions, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Crimea and the Moscow region
- Tyumen region governor Alexander Moor stated there was no damage to enterprises and no casualties
Defense Ministry summary for November 4
Russia's Defense Ministry reported that over the past 24 hours, air defense systems destroyed 972 Ukrainian drones. In a separate report, the ministry specified that between 8:00 and 20:00 Moscow time on November 4, 46 Ukrainian airplane-type UAVs were shot down over Russian regions. This is reported by Life.ru citing the military ministry; similar figures were published on the Defense Ministry's Telegram channel, which is referenced by Gazeta.Ru.
Which regions were affected
According to the Defense Ministry, drones were destroyed over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Samara, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen and Ulyanovsk regions, the Moscow region, Perm Krai, as well as the Republics of Bashkortostan, Crimea and Tatarstan — 13 regions in total. The ministry notes that the Ukrainian side used airplane-type drones.
Attack on Tyumen region
A few hours before the reports, Tyumen region governor Alexander Moor said that air defense forces and mobile fire groups repelled an attack by Ukrainian UAVs on the region. According to him, no damage was done to industrial enterprises and there were no casualties; emergency services are operating in an elevated readiness mode. Gazeta.Ru also recalls an earlier report that the Ukrainian armed forces launched nearly five hundred drones toward the Moscow region over 11 hours.
What is important to keep in mind
The figures cited come only from the Russian side; there is no independent confirmation in the published materials. The figures in the two reports cover different periods: 972 UAVs — over a full day, and 46 — only for the daytime interval of 8:00–20:00 Moscow time, so these numbers should not be added together and describe overlapping time spans. The geography of the intercepts, including the Urals and Western Siberia (Sverdlovsk and Tyumen regions, Perm Krai, Bashkortostan), indicates the significant range of the airplane-type drones used, but the sources do not provide details about the types of aircraft or their crash sites.
