MOSCOW, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Russian air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 32 Ukrainian drones overnight and a further seven in the morning, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
According to the ministry, seven of the drones were downed over the Belgorod Region, five each over the Bryansk and Kaluga Regions, four over Crimea, two each over the Oryol, Kursk, Voronezh, Ryazan and Moscow Regions, and one over the Tula Region.
On Monday morning, the Defense Ministry reported that air defenses shot down another seven Ukrainian drones.
As a result of the drone attack on the Nizhny Novgorod Region, one person was killed and two were injured, the regional governor, Gleb Nikitin, wrote on his Telegram channel.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said that seven drones heading toward the Russian capital were downed in the past hour on Monday morning. "Response teams are working at the site where debris fell," he wrote on Telegram. ■
