Ten out of ten Shaheds shot down over Mykolaiv, Odesa regions at night – Defense Forces of southern Ukraine

09:59, 28.02.2024 1 min read

Russian occupiers continue to attack populated areas of the south with drones, 10 out of 10 enemy UAVs were shot down, the command of the Defense Forces of Southern Ukraine reported on Wednesday morning.

"At night, the Russians attacked the southern regions with kamikaze drones of the Shahed-131/136 type. The enemy sent 10 attack drones from the Black Sea to Mykolaiv and Odesa regions. For 1.5 hours, air defense units were intensively repelling this attack. The vast majority of the Shaheds were shot down over the sea: one in Mykolaiv region, nine in Odesa region," the Telegram channel says.

The report also says that "during drone maneuvers over the industrial zone of Odesa, the wreckage of a downed drone damaged the transformer of one of the critical infrastructure facilities. There was a short circuit and a fire. Firefighters promptly extinguished the fire. People were not injured," the Southern Defense Forces said.