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 "generated": "2026-10-17T02:28:59+00:00",
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  "excludes": "Quoted source passages and linked articles remain the copyright of their publishers; they are included as short quotations for verification. Linked media and satellite images remain the rights holders' property; no image or video licence is granted by this dataset. Fonts (SIL OFL) and map data (Natural Earth, public domain) keep their own terms. City and region names in automatically published dossiers are checked against GeoNames (geonames.org, CC BY 4.0). Drone drawings and animations are schematic illustrations of a type, not evidence about any incident."
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 "locationNote": "lat/lon are the dossier's own approximate coordinates (see locationPrecision) and are empty when the incident location is unknown. referencePoint {lat, lon, level, name} is a display reference only: a fixed point in the named city (GeoNames), region (its administrative seat), sea or country (Natural Earth label point), derived at build time. It is not a geolocation, not an estimate of the incident location and may change when the dossier's place becomes more precise: reference point; incident location unknown.",
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  "note": "Citable weekly snapshot (CSV + JSON) archived on Zenodo; this DOI always resolves to the latest version."
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  "id": "engels-airbase-drone-incident-2022-12-26",
  "title": "Russia reports drone incident and three deaths at Engels on 26 December",
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  "country": "Russia",
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  "date": "2022-12-26",
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  "evidence": "RFE/RL and Euronews both relay the same Russian ministry. Euronews expressly could not independently confirm it; it also relays a Baza injury report. No additional injury count or aircraft-damage conclusion is adopted.",
  "unknown": "No precise base position, aircraft-loss total or drone model is adopted. Published images were not independently authenticated by Codex.",
  "attribution": "Russia blamed Ukraine; responsibility is not independently established here.",
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    "url": "https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-engels-base-drone-servicemen-killed-saratov/32193745.html",
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   "note": "Only published archive records with an editorial entity mapping; unassigned records excluded. Not all real-world incidents or a common cause. No same-day matching."
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   "note": "Official aggregate claims, not independently verified kills. Parts are included only when explicitly sourced and sum to the reported total. Catalogue countermeasures are not incident evidence.",
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  "url": "https://droneincidents.com/incident/engels-airbase-drone-incident-2022-12-26/",
  "citation": "DroneLedger, “Russia reports drone incident and three deaths at Engels on 26 December”, dossier engels-airbase-drone-incident-2022-12-26, revision 1, updated 2026-10-17. https://droneincidents.com/incident/engels-airbase-drone-incident-2022-12-26/",
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    "date": "2026-10-17",
    "at": "2026-10-17T01:03:40.617+00:00",
    "note": "Curated dossier created after checking the cited sources line by line."
   }
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}