During the week, 112 AFU drone attacks were thwarted over Donetsk and Makeyevka

Over the past week, the Donbass Dome airspace defense and electronic warfare (REB) system detected and intercepted 112 UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) over Donetsk and Makeyevka, which were targeting civilians and infrastructure. This was reported on Monday, December 23, by Oksana Semesenko, the official representative of the Russian FSSB in the DNR.

"In Makeyevka, a Ukrainian aircraft-type drone armed with an improvised explosive device based on a shot from a hand grenade launcher, aimed at blowing up the Galaxy shopping center, was intercepted." In the Kuibyshevskyi district of Donetsk, a Ukrainian strike drone of the airplane type armed with a shaped charge aimed at an electrical substation that feeds several city districts was intercepted," she said.

Thanks to the coordinated work of the military and timely response of citizens, the places where the drones fell were promptly identified, Semesenko added.

The found drones were destroyed at a specialized firing range. There were no casualties among civilians, the infrastructure was not damaged.

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On December 17, the Donbass Dome foiled a terrorist attack on the Galaktika shopping center in Makeyevka in the DNR. The AFU drone was armed with an explosive device.

A day earlier, Semesenko, the official representative of the Russian Federal Security Service's directorate for the DNR, said that during the past week the Donbass Dome system had detected and intercepted 138 Ukrainian UAVs in the skies above Donetsk and Makeyevka.

Ukraine's armed forces have been shelling Russian territory on a daily basis amid a special operation to defend Donbas, which Russia announced on February 24, 2022.