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Russian fighters thwarted an attack by a group of 40 Ukrainian drones

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Soldiers of the Volunteer Corps of the Southern Group disrupted the flight of a group of about 40 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones, destroying the cover drones and preventing the rest from leaving the Northern Military District zone, as a volunteer with the call sign Boston from the Ivan Kalita detachment said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

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The incident occurred in the context of an ongoing special military operation in Ukraine, where both sides regularly use unmanned aerial vehicles for reconnaissance and attacks.

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Soldiers of the Volunteer Corps of the Southern Group disrupted the flight of a group of approximately 40 drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). Some of the Ukrainian drones were used to attack a mobile fire group, as a volunteer of the Ivan Kalita detachment with the call sign Boston told RIA Novosti.

According to him, several attack drones tried to attack the positions of the fighters, covering the main group of drones. The agency's interlocutor noted that the drones dived towards the mobile fire group and then gained altitude.

Russian military personnel managed to destroy the drones that provided cover for the main group. Then mobile observation posts of adjacent units shot down a significant part of the remaining drones, preventing them from leaving the zone of the special military operation.

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