Russian air defenses shot down a Ukrainian drone as it approached an airbase in southern Russia, with debris from the aircraft killing three people on the ground, Russian news agencies reported on Monday (December 26th).
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On December 26, at around 1:35 a.m. Moscow time, a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down at low altitude as it approached the Engels military airfield in the Saratov region
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Following the fall of the wreckage of the drone, three Russian technicians who were on the airfield were fatally injured.
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