{"id":10977,"date":"2025-12-12T01:30:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/russian-air-defenses-shoot-down-17-ukrainian-drones-within-hours-over-two-regions\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T01:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:30:47","slug":"russian-air-defenses-shoot-down-17-ukrainian-drones-within-hours-over-two-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/russian-air-defenses-shoot-down-17-ukrainian-drones-within-hours-over-two-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian air defenses shoot down 17 Ukrainian drones within hours over two regions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday that its air defense systems destroyed 17 Ukrainian \u201cfixed-wing\u201d drones between 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM Moscow time on December 11. According to the statement, 15 drones were shot down over Bryansk region, and the remaining two over Rostov region.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that Ukrainian forces almost daily target Russian border areas in Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Voronezh regions, as well as the Crimean Peninsula, using drones and missiles. Sources indicate that Kyiv\u2019s forces employ these attacks, including drone strikes and artillery fire, against civilians and civilian infrastructure in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Russian forces respond by targeting only Ukrainian military infrastructure, including defense industry facilities, sites for storage, repair, or production of military equipment, and assembly points of Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries.<\/p>\n<p>Source: RT<\/p>\n<p>United News Network \u2013 UNN Arabic<br \/>\nAn independent media platform providing reliable news and objective analyses, promoting peace and cultural dialogue worldwide to convey truth and build bridges of understanding among nations.<\/p>\n<p>For more news, visit our homepage:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/\">https:\/\/un-news.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday that its air defense systems destroyed 17 Ukrainian \u201cfixed-wing\u201d drones between 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM Moscow time on December 11. According to the statement, 15 drones were shot down over Bryansk region, and the remaining two over Rostov region. It is reported that Ukrainian forces almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}