08:42, 14 November 2025

The Ministry of Defense reported 71 drones shot down over the Southern Federal District last night.

A drone over a populated area. Illustration created by the Caucasian Knot using AI in the Copilot program.

Last night, air defense systems on duty intercepted a total of 216 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over Russian regions, including 71 over the Krasnodar, Rostov, and Volgograd regions. Another 59 drones were shot down over the Black Sea.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," last night a Novorossiysk resident was hospitalized during a UAV attack, wounded by shards of broken window glass. A total of three apartment buildings and an oil depot at the Sheskharis transshipment complex were damaged.

Also, the military repulsed an attack by unmanned aerial vehicles on energy facilities in the Volgograd Region overnight. In the Rostov Region, UAVs were shot down in the Kamensky, Chertkovsky, Sholokhovsky, Ust-Donetsky, Bokovsky, and Millerovsky districts.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the military destroyed a total of 216 unmanned aerial vehicles over eight regions of the country overnight. Of these, 66 drones were shot down in the Krasnodar Region, eight in the Volgograd Region, and seven in the Rostov Region. Also, 59 drones were intercepted over the Black Sea.

Furthermore, UAVs were neutralized over the Saratov, Belgorod, Tambov, Bryansk, Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, and Orenburg regions and the Republic of Crimea, according to the military department's Telegram channel.

It should be noted that on the evening of November 13, air defense forces intercepted 17 unmanned aerial vehicles over the Rostov Region and the Black Sea in three hours.

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/417174