Russia's Defense Ministry announced that air defense units detected and shot down 559 Ukrainian-made aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles between 8 p.m. on Oct. 3 and 8 a.m. on Oct. 4.
The ministry said the UAVs were shot down over the Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Rostov, Smolensk and Tula regions, as well as the Moscow Region, the Republic of Adygea, Crimea and Krasnodar Krai. UAVs were also intercepted in several areas of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin announced that nine UAVs approaching the capital had been shot down.
Alleged cargo ship targeted off Odesa
Russia's Defense Ministry said the Russian military was continuing its attacks on Ukraine's port infrastructure and maritime vessels allegedly being used in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The ministry announced that a dry cargo ship-type vessel alleged to be carrying military equipment was hit during one of the overnight UAV attacks in a sea passage east of Odesa.
141 attacks reported in Belgorod
Belgorod Region Governor Aleksandr Shuyaev announced that 141 attacks had been carried out in the region over the past 24 hours. The attacks targeted the city of Belgorod and 16 districts, with eight artillery strikes and 11 incidents involving explosives being dropped by UAVs.
Shuyaev also said that 182 UAVs had been shot down or neutralized over the region during the same period. One civilian was killed in an attack in the Grayvoron district, while a woman injured in earlier attacks and a man injured on Sept. 16 in the Krasnoyaruzhsky district also died in hospital.
Twelve people, including four children, were injured in the city of Belgorod and two districts. A 16-year-old boy in serious condition and an adult may be transferred to federal clinics if necessary, officials said.
Bryansk Region Governor Yegor Kovalchuk announced that two civilians were injured the previous night in the Bryansk district when unidentified explosives, reportedly dropped by an aircraft-type UAV, detonated.
