Battlegroup North destroys 189 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over past day

MOSCOW, October 9. /TASS/. Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian armed forces lost 189 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and 45 heavy R-18 combat drones as a result of operations conducted by Russia’s Battlegroup North, the battlegroup’s spokesman Vasily Mezhevykh reported.

"A total of 27 UAV control centers, 189 fixed-wing UAVs, 45 R-18 heavy combat drones, and eight enemy ground robotic systems were identified and destroyed," Mezhevykh said.