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Russian air defense forces shoot down 13 Ukrainian drones

People injured in Russian drone attack in Ukrainian city of Chernigov, authorities say

Apr 19, 2026 10:06 51

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Russian air defense forces shot down 13 Ukrainian drones over regions of Russia and the Sea of Azov overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said, quoted by TASS, BTA reported.

"Overnight, air defense forces on duty intercepted and destroyed 13 Ukrainian unmanned aircraft of the aircraft type over the territories of Belgorod, Kursk and Rostov regions, as well as over Krasnodar Territory, (. . .) and over the waters of the Sea of Azov", the Russian military said.

It was also reported that some of the drones were shot down over Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.

People injured in Russian drone attack in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv tonight, Ukrinform reported, citing authorities, BTA reports.

The head of the Chernihiv regional military administration, Dmytro Bryzhinsky, wrote on his Telegram channel that two houses and one school were damaged when a drone crashed. There were injuries, and the information about them is being clarified, he added.

The city of Chernihiv, the administrative center of the northern Ukrainian region of the same name, which borders both Russia and Belarus, has been subjected to a massive drone attack by Russia, with explosions heard, Ukrinform reported earlier.

In the Russian city of Yeysk, in the southern Krasnodar Territory, not far from Ukraine, debris from falling drones broke windows of three houses. No one was injured, TASS reported, citing a post by regional authorities on Telegram.

Russia and Ukraine have been attacked by drones every night - more than four years after the start of the war, triggered by Russia's full-scale invasion of the neighboring country on February 24, 2022. The southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa, where tens of thousands of Bulgarians live, is currently under such an attack.