Russia’s air defenses repelled another wave of drone attacks overnight on April 7, according to the Defense Ministry, which reported that 45 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs were intercepted and destroyed.

The heaviest activity was recorded over the Leningrad region, where 19 drones were shot down. Air defenses also neutralized 11 UAVs in the Voronezh region and seven in the Belgorod region. Three drones were downed over the Vladimir region, while single UAVs were intercepted over the Bryansk, Volgograd, and Penza regions, as well as above the Krasnodar Territory and the waters of the Black Sea.

Voronezh region governor Aleksandr Gusev said the attack left one man injured, who was taken to hospital. A fire broke out at a warehouse belonging to an industrial facility but was quickly extinguished. However, a technological unit at the site was damaged, forcing a temporary halt in production. The strikes also affected residential properties: four private homes were damaged, with attic structures destroyed in two of them, windows shattered in another, and a wall damaged in a fourth.

Drone activity had already been reported across multiple regions a day earlier, on April 6. Between 14:00 and 20:00 Moscow time, air defenses shot down 14 UAVs — seven over the Belgorod region, six over the Voronezh region, and one over the Kursk region. Earlier that day, from 08:00 to 14:00, 33 drones were destroyed. Most of them, 18 UAVs, were intercepted over the Belgorod region. Nine were downed in the Rostov region, five over Crimea, and one in the Kursk region.