211 AFU drone attacks thwarted over Donetsk and Makeyevka over the week

The Donbass Dome airspace protection and electronic warfare (EW) system has thwarted 211 attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) in the skies above Donetsk and Makeyevka over the past week. This was reported on January 6 by Oksana Semesenko, the official representative of the Russian Federal Security Service's directorate for the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR).

"Over the past week, the Donbass Dome airspace defense and electronic warfare system detected and intercepted 211 enemy UAVs over Donetsk and Makeyevka," Semesenko said.

She specified that a Ukrainian UAV of airplane type, on which 15 kilograms of explosives were attached, was intercepted over Makeyevka. It was aimed at a substation that feeds the region.

She also said that increased activity of enemy reconnaissance drones had been recorded in the skies above Donetsk this week.

According to Semesenko, thanks to the successful operation of the Donbass Dome system, no one was injured among civilians and no damage was done to infrastructure.

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Earlier, on January 3, it was reported that the "Dome of Don bass" intercepted 72 Ukrainian drones over Donetsk and Makeyevka. It is specified that Ukrainian militants launched a drone with an explosive substance weighing more than 15 kg towards a peaceful infrastructure facility.

The AFU has been shelling Russian territory on a daily basis amid a special operation to protect Donbass, the start of which Moscow announced on February 24, 2022.