The Donbass Dome system prevented an attack on Makeyevka Machine-Building Plant

The Donbass Dome airspace protection and electronic warfare (REB) system has neutralized an aircraft-type drone of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) aimed at attacking the Makeyevka Machine-Building Plant. This was reported on December 28 by the Russian Federal Security Service's directorate for the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR).

It is specified that the fragments of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and the combat part were placed in a pre-equipped hollow in the ground and destroyed by detonation.

"Thanks to the professional actions of our defenders, there were no casualties among civilians and damage to infrastructure," the press service of the agency informed.

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Earlier, on December 21, the Dome of Donbass intercepted a Ukrainian drone in Donetsk. Explosive technicians with the help of a mobile robotic complex deactivated the mechanism, neutralized the Ukrainian attack drone.

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

Prior to that, on December 16, Oksana 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.

The Ukrainian armed forces have been shelling the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics, as well as Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions, on a daily basis amid a special operation to protect Donbas, which Russia announced the start of on February 24, 2022.