On the night of February 3, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV on targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

According to the department, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed four Ukrainian UAVs over the territory of the Belgorod region, two drones over the Volgograd region and one drone over the Rostov region.

At the same time, in the Volgograd region, as a result of repelling an attack in the Kalachevsky district and the Transkanal region, a fire broke out on the territory of the Volgograd Oil Refinery. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, an oil spill caught fire on an area of ​​300 square meters. m.

“The fire and rescue forces quickly got to work - the fire was promptly localized, the open burning was extinguished. There are no casualties,” said the head of the region, Andrei Bocharov.

As noted by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the fire was completely extinguished at 07:55 Moscow time.

In the Rostov region, after the Ukrainian UAV was hit, according to Governor Vasily Golubev, there were no casualties or destruction.

The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, also reported that there were no casualties when the UAV fell in the Novooskol urban district, but property damage was recorded.

“As a result of falling debris in the Podolkhi village, windows of one private household were broken, the roof, facade and fence were cut, as well as a parked KamAZ car. Door-to-door inspection of the territory will continue during daylight hours,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.

The Kiev regime this week has already made attempts to massively attack Russian regions using aircraft-type drones.

Thus, on the night and morning of February 1, a total of 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted and destroyed: eight over the Belgorod region, two over the Voronezh region, one over the Kursk region.

No one was injured, and no damage was recorded.

On January 31, air targets were destroyed over the Crimean Peninsula and the Black Sea, as well as over the territory of the Pskov and Belgorod regions.

On January 30, air defense systems on duty shot down 11 drones over Crimea, five over Belgorod, three over Bryansk, and one each over Kaluga and Tula regions.

On January 29, a drone attack on the Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery in the Yaroslavl region was prevented.

“Against the backdrop of the failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ counteroffensive”

The day before, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, during a thematic conference call with the leadership of the armed forces, emphasized that the Zelensky regime is carrying out terrorist acts against Russian civilians to demonstrate to Western curators at least some success against the backdrop of the failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ counter-offensive.

According to him, the combat potential of the troops of the Kyiv regime is steadily declining. Thus, as a result of complex fire from Russian military personnel in January, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 23 thousand people killed and wounded, as well as more than 3 thousand units of various weapons, including German Leopard tanks, American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, Patriot and HIMARS launchers .

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Also, over the past month, 127 strikes with precision weapons were carried out on military infrastructure and objects of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine. Enterprises for the production, modernization and repair of weapons, arsenals, military airfields, fuel depots, and deployment points for units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and foreign mercenaries were hit.

“After the failure of the enemy’s counteroffensive, the Russian Armed Forces retain the strategic initiative along the entire line of combat contact. Our units are moving forward, expanding zones of control, improving their position along the front line... Groups of Russian troops continue to solve the tasks set by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief,” the minister emphasized.