This activity follows an Oct. 1 raid that deployed roughly 420 UAVs in separate streams targeting the capital and the Volga River basin. Prior operations on Sept. 28 hit four oil depots in Krasnodar Krai and two defense plants in the Tula and Voronezh regions, alongside attacks in the Oryol region and the Black Sea.
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Ukraine’s Drone Raids Reach Rostov and Crimea
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Unmanned aerial vehicles are currently active throughout multiple Russian territories, with flights detected over the Moscow Oblast and in the Voronezh, Bryansk, and Kaluga regions. Russian monitoring sources report the operations have expanded to include the Rostov region and areas near Crimea as part of a broader series of long-range strikes launched by Kyiv.
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