Air defenses shoot down 42 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions in five hours
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that its air defenses intercepted and destroyed 42 Ukrainian drones across several Russian regions and Crimea on May 23.
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“Air defenses shot down 42 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions in five hours on Saturday, Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.”
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The claim is supported by a single web search result title that matches the wording of the claim. Other provided evidence consists of general background information on Russia and the war, but no second independent source confirms this specific event of 42 drones on May 23.
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— In early June 2023, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukraine launched an offensive (commonly, although technically incorrectly, referred to as a "counteroffensive") against Russian forces occupying its…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Ukrainian_counteroffensiv…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Ukrainian_counteroffensiv…
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— The Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. It then supported Russian separatist armed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war
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— During the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present) starting with the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military and authorities have committed war crimes, such as deliberate attacks against civ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russo-Ukrain…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russo-Ukrain…
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“On-duty air defenses intercepted and destroyed 42 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod, Smolensk, Tula, Perm and Moscow regions, as well as over Crimea, between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Moscow time (7:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. GMT) on May 23”
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The specific details regarding the regions (Belgorod, Bryansk, etc.) and the time window (9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.) are found in one web search result. No other independent sources in the provided evidence corroborate these specific details.
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— 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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_campaign
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— 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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— The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), commonly referred to by the exonym Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), is an Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Orthodox …
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