On the night of March 24, Russian air defense systems repelled another wave of drone attacks, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Duty crews reportedly intercepted and destroyed 55 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

The ministry said the targets were downed across several regions, including the Kursk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Tula, and Lipetsk regions, as well as the Republic of Crimea, the Moscow region, and over the waters of the Black Sea.

Drone activity had also been recorded a day earlier. The Defense Ministry reported that on March 23, between 13:00 and 20:00 Moscow time, air defense forces shot down 67 UAVs. They were detected over the Leningrad, Kursk, Kaluga, Tula, Ryazan, Bryansk, Belgorod, Smolensk, Oryol, and Yaroslavl regions, in addition to Crimea and the Moscow region.

Earlier that same day, between 09:00 and 13:00 Moscow time, another 19 drones were intercepted. Most of them were recorded over the Kursk and Tula regions, where seven and five UAVs were destroyed respectively. Two drones were downed over the Ryazan region, two each over the Belgorod and Leningrad regions, and one over the Bryansk region.

According to the report, Ukrainian forces carry out daily attempts to strike both border and central regions of Russia using fixed-wing kamikaze drones. Russian air defenses, the ministry stated, detect and destroy the majority of these UAVs. In response, Russian forces conduct precision strikes targeting Ukrainian drone assembly facilities, defense industry sites, as well as deployment areas of Ukrainian units and storage sites for weapons and military equipment.