
Enemy drones were aimed at civilian infrastructure.
In the Zaporozhye region, Russian military and mobile groups destroyed and suppressed about 400 enemy drones that attacked civilian infrastructure in one day, Governor Yevgeny Balitsky said.
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The region is regularly targeted by drone attacks.
SIMFEROPOL, September 16 - RIA Novosti. About 400 enemy drones trying to attack civilian infrastructure were destroyed in the Zaporozhye region in a day, reported the region’s governor, Evgeniy Balitsky.
“Over the past 24 hours, over the territory of the Zaporozhye region, military personnel of the Russian army and combined mobile fire groups destroyed and suppressed about 400 enemy drones aimed at civilian infrastructure,” Balitsky wrote in his channel on the Max platform.

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