“On the evening of September 25, 2023, the Kiev regime’s attempt to carry out a terrorist attack by fixed-wing drones on targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted," the ministry said in a statement.
"The deployed air defense systems destroyed seven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the Belgorod Region."
Citing preliminary data, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said there were no casualties in Russia’s Belgorod Region after Ukraine's latest drone attacks.
"A massive attack of drones was repelled by our air defense! Seven fixed-wing drones were shot down in the sky over the Grayvoron urban district. Response services are clarifying information about the consequences on the ground. According to preliminary data, there are no casualties," Gladkov wrote on his Telegram channel.
The Russian ministry later detailed that air defenses destroyed two additional Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over the Kursk Region.
The latest development comes hours after Russian air defenses thwarted an attempted strike by four Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea near Crimea, as well as two Ukrainian drones over the over the Surazh district of the Bryansk Region.