MOSCOW, November 17. /TASS/. Five Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russia’s borderline Bryansk and Kursk Regions, the Russian defense ministry said.

"From 4:40 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Moscow time (1:40 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. GMT) on November 17, the Kiev regime’s attempted terrorist attacks on facilities in Russia’s territory with the use of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles were thwarted. Russian air defense systems destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the Kursk Region and two - over the Bryansk Region," it said.