On Thursday, December 26, the Ukrainian Air Forces, along with other units of the defense forces, attacked a protected facility of the Russian army in Oryol region, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) has said Saturday morning.

"As a result of the attack, a depot for the storage, maintenance and repairs of the Shahed kamikaze drones, made of a few concrete protective structures, was destroyed," it said on the Telegram channel.

According to the message, the combat operation has "dramatically lowered" the enemy's potential for launching aerial raids on the civilian infrastructure of Ukraine using attack drones.

"The AFU has detailed information about the facilities of the Russian armed forces. The work on detecting and attacking targets on the territory of the aggressor state will continue," the General Staff said.