The regional government informs about this on the department’s Telegram channel.

“In all districts of the Leningrad region, a high alert regime has been declared at critical infrastructure facilities,” the message said.

It is clarified that security units and law enforcement agencies have received orders to destroy drones if they are detected in adjacent territories.

On January 18, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that crews of air defense systems destroyed one UAV of Ukrainian troops over the Moscow region and intercepted one drone over the Leningrad region.