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He said specialists were examining fragments where they had landed.<br \/>A tally of his posts showed 10 more drones were intercepted or destroyed in the previous 11 hours.<br \/>Russia&#8217;s Defence Ministry, in a separate post, said its air defence units had downed 87 Ukrainian drones in different areas across central, western and southern Russia in a period of nearly five hours. Forty-eight of the drones were downed in Bryansk region, on the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian air defences intercepted drones heading for Moscow in a series of attacks, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.Sobyanin, writing on Telegram, made no mention of casualties or damage in his accounts of air defence activity, but said 13 drones had been downed or destroyed after midnight. 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