Ukrainian air defense forces destroy 24 of 29 enemy drones last night

11:49, 03.08.2024 1 min read

The Russian occupation forces launched drones from the occupied Crimea and Russia and fired missiles to attack Ukraine last night, the Ukrainian Air Force command has reported on Saturday morning.

"During an air defense battle, 24 Shahed-131/136 kamikaze drones were shot down in the skies of Kherson, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, and Zhytomyr regions," it said on the Telegram channel.

The message also says the enemy fired two S-300 guided anti-aircraft missiles from the occupied territory of Donbas, two Kh-31P anti-radar missiles from the airspace above the Black Sea, and 29 Shahed kamikaze drones from Cape Chauda in Crimea and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk, Russia.

The air raid was repulsed by mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian defense forces, anti-aircraft missile forces, and electronic warfare units of the Air Force.