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Russia destroys 59 Ukrainian drones

Published on March 23, 2025 at 03:09 PM

Russian authorities on Sunday said that its air defence units destroyed 59 Ukrainian drones that targeted Russia's southwestern regions and killed one person in Rostov.

The Russian defence ministry said on the Telegram messaging app that twenty-nine of the drones were downed overnight over the Rostov region in Russia's south, adding that another 20 were downed over the Astrakhan region on the Caspian Sea.

According to the ministry, the rest of the drones were downed over the Voronezh, Volgograd, Kursk and Saratov regions, as well as over Crimea.

The acting governor of the Rostov region that borders Ukraine, Yuri Slyusar, said that the attack killed one person.

“A car caught fire due to a drone attack. A person in the car was killed,” he said.

In the same vein, the governor of the Astrakhan region, Igor Babushkin, said debris from a destroyed drone fell on a house and damaged a car but that there were no injuries.

There was no immediate comment from Ukraine at the time of filing this report.

However, both sides have reportedly denied targeting civilians in the three-year-old war that Russia started with its full-scale invasion on Ukraine.

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