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Russia claimed on Friday that it had destroyed 11 Ukrainian drones overnight, though one UAV dropped explosives on a substation, cutting the local power supply, a regional governor said.P)..
"Eleven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defence systems on duty, one of them over the territory of Kaluga region and 10 over Kursk region," Russia's defence ministry said on the messaging platform Telegram..
Kursk governor Roman Starovoyt said that the region bordering eastern Ukraine was "massively attacked" by Ukrainian UAVs..
In Belaya village, less than 25 kilometres (16 miles) from the border, "a Ukrainian drone dropped two explosive devices on a substation", he said on Telegram. ..
Russia earlier said it had destroyed two Ukrainian drones on Thursday evening over the neighbouring Belgorod region..
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