On Tuesday, November 11, 2025, the Russian Defence Ministry announced that its air defence systems intercepted or destroyed 37 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during an overnight operation.
The attacks were reported by the ministry to have taken place across various regions and are part of the recent wave of intense attacks by both nations on each other.
“Over the past night, alert air defence capabilities intercepted or destroyed 37 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, including 10 UAVs over the Republic of Crimea, eight over the Saratov Region, seven over the Oryol Region, three over the Lipetsk Region, three over the Rostov Region, three over the Black Sea, and one each over the Bryansk, Voronezh and Kaluga regions,” the ministry specified.
Russia Intensifies Attacks
A Ukrainian drone control centre was also reported destroyed.
The centre was based near Kupyansk in the Kharkiv Region, from where drone operators behind a recent attack on Russian civilians operated.
Igor Kimakovsky, an adviser to the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), confirmed the attack and specified that the operational centre was destroyed by a FAB aerial bomb.
“Our Aerospace Forces have destroyed a major enemy drone control centre near Kupyansk. It is from there that drone operators involved in the death of civilians who were killed in Ukrainian drone attacks as they attempted to flee to the Russian side were believed to have been operating.”
The Russian Defense Ministry also attributed the killing of several Russian civilian residents to Ukrainian drones that were being used by their troops to check on the surrounding area as they made an attempt to evacuate to the Russian side.
Eight Russian civilians were killed in the Ukrainian army’s shelling attacks in the past week, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik stated.
45 people, including six minors, were confirmed to have sustained serious injuries.
Putin Outsmarts Zelenskyy
In the same effort to respond to Zelenskyy’s Black Sea Port Tuapse attack, the Russian Federal Security Service on November 11, 2025, has revealed that they have managed to uncover and stop a Ukrainian military intelligence operation to hijack a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet equipped with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile to carry out a false flag attack on NATO’s largest airbase.
“The Federal Security Service has uncovered and thwarted an operation by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate and its UK supervisors to hijack a Russian MiG-31 supersonic fighter jet, which is equipped with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile, and fly it abroad.”
The military press office reported that the Ukrainian military intelligence officers tried to recruit Russian pilots, offering them $3 million (Ksh396 million) to hijack the aircraft.
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The special services then planned to send the jet with the Kinzhal missile to the area where NATO’s largest airbase in southeastern Europe is located, in the Romanian city of Constanta, where it could be shot down by air defences, before their plan was uncovered.
The ministry has stated that it is willing and capable of protecting its territory at all costs.
Escalating Drone Warfare
The overnight incident underscores the growing role of drones in the nearly two-year-old conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which has increasingly shifted toward long-range strikes and electronic warfare.
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Ukrainian forces have relied on UAVs to hit Russian military assets and energy facilities far from the front lines, while Moscow has invested heavily in air defense systems to counter these attacks.
Military analysts note that the Saratov and Lipetsk regions, located hundreds of kilometers from Ukraine, are significant because they host airbases and logistical hubs critical to Russia’s operations.
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