This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

“Crews of the howitzer battery of the 6th combined arms army of the “Western” group of forces repelled an attack by kamikaze drones in the area of ​​the Northern Military District in the Kupyansky direction,” the department said.

It is noted that the crews of the Akatsiya self-propelled artillery systems neutralized FPV drones with a warhead on approach to the firing position.

Earlier, the governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, of the Russian Armed Forces reported that over the past 24 hours they carried out comprehensive attacks on a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces in the region and sank a boat with Ukrainian paratroopers.

In addition, Russian air defense systems destroyed 91 drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces within 24 hours.