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Russia says intercepted more than 500 Ukrainian drones overnight

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17-05-2026 | 02:38

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Russia says intercepted more than 500 Ukrainian drones overnight

Russian air defenses intercepted more than 550 drones from Ukraine overnight, the defense ministry said on Sunday.

"Air defence duty assets intercepted and destroyed 556 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles" over more than a dozen regions, the Russian Ministry of Defense posted on social media.

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