Ukraine downs all 27 drones used in Russian overnight attack, air force says

Reuters

9 August 2024 at 1:53 am

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's forces destroyed all 27 Russian attack drones launched overnight, Ukraine's Air Force chief said on Friday.

"As a result of the anti-air combat, all enemy drones were shot down by mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defence Forces, anti-aircraft missile units and Air Force REB assets in the Kyiv, Poltava, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions," the commander said.

(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk)

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