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Ukraine Shoots Down 4 Russian Drones; 4 Russian Villages Without Power After Attack

Ukrainian air defenses shot down four Russian drones on March 1. (file photo)
Ukrainian air defenses shot down four Russian drones on March 1. (file photo)

Ukrainian air-defense forces shot down four Russian drones over the regions of Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk early on March 1, the military said, without specifying how many drones Moscow had launched at Ukraine's territory. Meanwhile, Roman Starovoit, the governor of Russia's border region of Kursk, said a Ukrainian drone attack left four villages in his region without electricity on March 1. Russia's Defense Ministry previously said that its air defenses downed four Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod and Nizhny Novogorod regions. Ukraine has not commented on the Russian claim. To read the original stories by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, click here and here.

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