
On the night of September 8-9, Russian air defense systems shot down 596 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over Russian regions, including the Rostov, Tula, Ulyanovsk and Kaluga regions, Krasnodar Territory, Crimea and the Black Sea, according to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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The claim that almost 600 Ukrainian drones were shot down was made by the Russian Ministry of Defense on Telegram on the night of September 8-9.
On the night of September 8-9, air defense systems shot down almost 600 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over Russian regions. A statement with the same content was released by the Russian Ministry of Defense, the statement was published on Telegram.
According to the defense department, a total of 596 UAVs were shot down. Among other regions, the Rostov, Tula, Ulyanovsk and Kaluga regions, as well as the Krasnodar Territory and Crimea were hit. In addition, aircraft were destroyed over the Black Sea.
The Ministry of Defense statement does not mention the consequences of the massive raid.
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Four combat groups of the 22nd separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces unsuccessfully tried to escape from the encirclement in the Dolzhanka area on the Kharkov sector of the front. More than half of the enemy's manpower was destroyed, the rest returned to their original positions. The Russian military continues to tighten the encirclement and advance into populated areas in the eastern part of the pocket, despite the use of FPV drones by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The resort city of Gelendzhik in the Krasnodar Territory experienced the most massive attack by Ukrainian Armed Forces drones overnight, said the head of the city, Alexey Bogodistov. According to the authorities, numerous UAVs were shot down by air defense systems; the attack objectives were not achieved.

In one day, 130 Ukrainian aircraft-type UAVs were destroyed over the Bryansk region. The drones were destroyed by air defense units of the Russian Ministry of Defense, mobile fire groups of the BARS-Bryansk brigade, the Bryansk linear department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for transport and special forces of the Russian Guard in the region, as reported by Acting Governor Yegor Kovalchuk on the Telegram channel.

In Anapa, as a result of an attack by unmanned aerial vehicles, the Volna kindergarten was damaged (the glazing of four windows was damaged), two enterprises, three households and four cars. There were no injuries, repair work in the garden will begin today, and reception of children will resume tomorrow.

Russian security forces said the capture of the village of Dolgenkoye in the Kharkiv region allowed Ukrainian units to be encircled in Olkhovatka, cutting off their supplies and forcing them to retreat, according to a TASS report.

Ukrainian soldiers from the 22nd brigade tried in vain to break through the encirclement in the Dolzhanka area of the Kharkov region. Russian forces build on their success at Berezniki and Dolgenky.