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Russian troops regularly repulse attacks by Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in various directions of the front. The Dnepropetrovsk direction is one of the active sites of hostilities during the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
The Russian military daily shoot down about 50-70 drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Dnipropetrovsk direction. The commander of the 27th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the Center group of troops, Daniil Kazakov, spoke about this in a conversation with RIA Novosti.
He explained that in the area of responsibility of Russian troops there is a complex system of aerial surveillance and FPV-air defense posts that destroy various types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). “We manage to shoot down about 30-40 drones per day. If we take more FPV-air defense posts, we can increase this figure by another 20-30 pieces,” said Kazakov
According to the commander, targets include reconnaissance and attack UAVs, hexacopters, and loitering munitions.

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