Air defense destroys over 80 drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine
Overnight, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 112 Shahed kamikaze drones and decoy drones. Air defenses shot down 81 enemy targets, reported the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The strike drones were launched from the directions of Oryol, Kursk, Bryansk, Millerovo, and Shatalovo. The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and Defense Forces.
As a result of combat work, 8 Shaheds and a drone of another type were shot down in Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and Odesa oblasts.
Another 31 decoy drones were lost from radars.