Throughout the night, Belarus raised fighters three times to shoot down Russian drones.

On the night of September 5, Belarus destroyed Russian drones that violated its state border. This was reported by the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Defense. According to the Chief of General Staff of Belarus, Sergei Krylov, all violators were destroyed by the standby forces of the air defense.

As a result of the shooting down of the Russian drone in Gomel, a fire broke out. It damaged the roof over an area of 5 square meters, but no one was injured.

According to the monitoring project "Belaruski Gayun", two Shahed strike drones from the Chernihiv region entered the Gomel region of Belarus. Shortly after this, a fighter jet was raised, which destroyed these drones. A second fighter jet was also raised as soon as another drone entered Belarusian territory. This Time the drone was moving towards the village of Bragin.

However, during the operation of the air defense forces, air raid sirens in Gomel did not go off. This information was reported by the monitoring project "Belaruski Gayun".

This night, the Rashist UAVs attacked BelarusBy habit, the "Shaheds" aimed at Ukraine entered the territory of Russia's allied state.According to the "Belaruski Gayun" channel, a fighter jet was raised to shoot down the UAVs. pic.twitter.com/3H5qrih4T1

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Earlier, the Belarusian Ministry of Defense reported that UAVs were shot down on the night of Thursday, but did not specify their number.