The key facts

  • On the night of November 5, two Ukrainian drones were shot down over Tula Region; there were no casualties
  • On November 4, the Russian Defense Ministry reported 46 drones shot down over 13 regions
  • Earlier, the authorities of Adygea disclosed the consequences of a drone attack

Attack over Tula Region

On the night of November 5, air defense units of the Russian Defense Ministry destroyed two unmanned aerial vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the territory of Tula Region. This was reported by the head of the region Dmitry Milyaev on his channel, noting that the incident occurred during a drone danger alert. According to the governor, no one was injured, and no damage to buildings or infrastructure was recorded.

The scale of the previous day

The report from Tula authorities came against the backdrop of a larger attack reported by the Defense Ministry: on the morning of November 4, the ministry stated that over the course of a day, air defense forces shot down 46 Ukrainian drones. According to the ministry, the drones were destroyed over Kursk, Bryansk, Belgorod, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, Saratov, Samara and Ulyanovsk regions, as well as over the Moscow region, Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Crimea and Perm Krai. Tula Region was not mentioned in that list — the report of two downed drones there refers to the following night.

Consequences of the attacks

Earlier the authorities of Adygea disclosed the consequences of a drone attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the republic. Details of these consequences are not provided in the available publications. Official reports of downed drones, as in the case of Tula Region, come from the Russian military and regional authorities; the sources contain no independent verification of this data.