New Delhi, Jan. 23 -- The Russian Defense Ministry says air defense systems neutralized Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs over Belgorod, Voronezh, Bryansk, Penza, and Astrakhan as Kyiv's drone campaign intensifies and fails to breach Russian security.

Russia's air defense forces neutralized twelve Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles during coordinated overnight attacks spanning five Russian regions, reinforcing Moscow's assertion that Kyiv's drone campaign is both escalating and failing to penetrate Russia's defensive architecture.

In a statement released Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed the drones between 11:00 PM Moscow time on January 22 and 7:00 AM Moscow t...