Ukrainian air defenses down 21 enemy drones overnight, 22 fail to reach targets
Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare forces units and mobile fire groups shot down 21 drones launched by the enemy to attack Ukraine last night.
"Twenty-one Shahed kamikaze drones and simulator drones of other types were destroyed in Kharkiv, Poltava, Chernihiv, Odesa, Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The locations of 22 enemy simulator drones were lost (without negative consequences)," the Ukrainian Air Force said on the Telegram channel Monday morning.
Civilian private houses were damaged as a result of destroyed drones falling in Kharkiv and Odesa regions.
The enemy launched its drones from Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Russia.
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