Russian air defense systems shot down 110 Ukrainian drones overnight across the Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Nizhny Novgorod, Belgorod, Bryansk, and Moscow regions, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday. 

The ministry also revealed that an attempt to conduct a terrorist attack using fixed-wing drones targeting locations within Russia was foiled last night.

In detail, 43 UAVs were destroyed over Kursk, 27 over Lipetsk, 18 over Oryol, eight over Nizhny Novgorod, seven over Belgorod, sic over Bryansk, and one over Moscow, bringing the total to 110 drones. 

Last month, Le Figaro reported that Kiev’s setbacks are leading Western backers to reconsider how to resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict. After 30 months of fighting, the idea of a negotiated settlement is being "discreetly" discussed in the US, EU, and even Ukraine, the French newspaper said on Monday.

The paper wrote that Russian forces are advancing “slowly but steadily” in Donbass, nearing the strategic town of Pokrovsk. Le Figaro notes that “in the West, it is increasingly openly acknowledged that Donbass and Crimea are beyond the military reach of the Ukrainians.”

Although Kiev’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region may have met its political goals, it did not prompt Moscow to withdraw forces from other areas of the frontline, the newspaper stressed.

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