Air defenses shoot down 32 of 51 enemy drones overnight – Air Force
Last night, the Russian occupation forces attacked Ukraine by 51 Shahed kamikaze drones and unidentified unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), according to the Command of the Ukrainian Air Force.
"As of 8 a.m., the shooting down of 32 enemy drones was confirmed in Odesa, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Donetsk, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, and Ternopil regions," it said.
Also, the locations of 18 enemy UAV were lost in different regions of Ukraine.
The Air Force reported that the enemy drone attack was launched from Russia's Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Orel at 9 p.m.
The epicenter of the enemy strike was in Odesa.
The air attack was repelled by the anti-aircraft rocket forces, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Air Force and the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
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