Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 29 drones and a Russian-launched missile in a new series of nighttime attacks on Ukrainian territory.
Ukrainian air defenses shot down 29 Iranian Shahed 131/136 drones, out of a total of 31 unmanned aerial vehicles, and an Iskander-K cruise missile, Kyiv’s air force said. via the social network Telegram.
In total, Russia launched 31 drones and one missile from Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014, the Ukrainian Air Force added.
The Russian army, which launched the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, attacks several Ukrainian regions almost every night with drones and missiles.
In September, Moscow launched more than 500 Shahed drones against Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian advisory group Defense Express, which predicts that Moscow will use these types of weapons even more actively to “deplete” Ukrainian air defenses.
Source: DN
