All 11 Russian drones shot down over Ukraine overnight
2024/08/19 - 08:01
Russian forces targeted Ukraine with 11 Shahed attack UAVs on the night of 18-19 August, launched from the direction of Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk. Ukrainian air defence shot down all drones.
Source: Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of the Air Force, on Telegram
Quote from Oleshchuk: "As a result of combat efforts, mobile firing groups of the Ukrainian defence forces, anti-aircraft missile units, aircraft and electronic warfare assets of the Air Force shot down all enemy UAVs in Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Sumy and Donetsk oblasts."
Background:
- On the evening of 18 August, an air-raid warning was issued in a number of regions of Ukraine because of the threat of Russian drone attacks.
- Kyiv Oblast Military Administration reported that air defence systems in Kyiv Oblast were responding to the attack.
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