Ukrainian air defence destroys 31 of 49 UAVs launched by Russia overnight
2024/10/20 - 11:19
Ukrainian air defence units have reported shooting down 31 Russian UAVs in an anti-aircraft operation as of the morning of 20 October.
Source: Ukraine's Air Force
Details: The Russian targets were engaged over Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, Lviv, Odesa, Sumy, Poltava, Cherkasy, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk oblasts.
Another 13 Russian drones disappeared from radar.
A total of 51 aerial targets were detected and tracked: 49 UAVs and two Iskander-M ballistic missiles launched by Russian forces.
The Russians launched UAVs from the cities of Yeysk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk while missiles were fired from occupied Crimea.
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