Air Defense eliminates all 29 enemy strike UAVs – Air Force
Ukrainian air defense eliminated all 29 enemy strike UAVs within eight regions of Ukraine, the Air Force reports.
"As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, the crews of the mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, aviation, anti-aircraft missile units and the reconnaissance assets of the Air Force shot down 29 enemy UAVs in Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Kherson, Zaporizhia, Sumy, Chernihiv and Kyiv regions," the report says.
It is reported that on the night of Thursday, the enemy launched a strike with three X-59 guided air missiles from the airspace of Kursk region and 29 Shahed-type attack UAVs from the areas of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Eysk, and Kursk (Russia).
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