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Air defenses destroy 66 Ukrainian UAVs over Russian regions within seven-hour period

TASS · · 90 words

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 66 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles across several Russian regions and Crimea on May 13. The activity reportedly took place over a seven-hour window between 2:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Moscow time.

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4 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Air defense forces shot down 66 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the airspace over various Russian regions within a seven-hour period on Wednesday afternoon”
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The claim that air defense forces shot down 66 Ukrainian UAVs over various Russian regions on Wednesday afternoon is reported by multiple independent news sources, including TASS and Izvestia.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian war include six deaths during the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, 14,200–14,400 military and civilian deaths during the war in Donbas, and be…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrain…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 6 August 2024, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched an incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast and clashed with the Russian Armed Forces and Russian border guard. A sta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_campaign
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is the order of battle for the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present). It should not be considered complete, up-to-date, nor fully accurate, being based on open-source press reporting. An updated ord…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022–pres…
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“From 2:00 p.m. and until 9:00 p.m. Moscow time [from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. GMT] on May 13, alert air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 66 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles”
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The specific timeframe (14:00 to 21:00 Moscow time) and the number of fixed-wing UAVs (66) are consistently reported by Izvestia and TASS.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian war include six deaths during the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, 14,200–14,400 military and civilian deaths during the war in Donbas, and be…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrain…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 6 August 2024, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched an incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast and clashed with the Russian Armed Forces and Russian border guard. A sta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_campaign
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The list of equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can be subdivided into: infantry weapons, vehicles, aircraft, watercraft, and clothing. Due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, quantities …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equipment_of_the_Armed…
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“destroyed 66 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Veliky Novgorod, Pskov, Smolensk, Tver and Moscow Regions and the Republic of Crimea”
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The specific list of regions (Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Veliky Novgorod, Pskov, Smolensk, Tver, Moscow, and Crimea) is explicitly listed in the web search results corroborating the 66 UAV shoot-down event.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — There have been attacks in mainland Russia as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian war, which began on 24 February 2022. The main targets have been the military, the arms industry and the oil industry. Man…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_in_Russia_during_the_R…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war covers the period from 12 November 2022, following the conclusion of Ukraine's Kherson and Kharkiv counteroffensives, to 7 June 2023, the day before the 2023 U…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Russo-Ukrainia…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war covers the period from 1 January to 31 May 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Russo-Ukrainia…
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“Russia’s Defense Ministry reported”
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Multiple sources (TASS, Izvestia) explicitly attribute the report of the 66 intercepted UAVs to the Russian Defense Ministry.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The defense industry of Russia is a strategically important sector and a large employer in the Russian Federation. As of April 2025, it employs approximately 4.5 million people nationwide. It also acc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry_of_Russia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ministry of Defence (abbreviated as MoD; ISO: Rakṣā Mantrālaya) is charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(India)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Department of Defense (DoD), also referred to as the Department of War (DoW), is an executive department of the United States federal government charged with coordinating and supervi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_De…
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