Air defense forces downed 80 russian drones
From 08:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 17, the russian occupation army is attacking Ukraine with Shahed type UAVs and drones of an unknown type (launch areas: Kursk, Oryol, Primorsko-Akhtarsk - the aggressor country of the russian federation).
This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
It is noted that as of 08:30 a.m., the Air Force's radio engineering troops detected and escorted 135 enemy drones.
The air attack is repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
As a result of anti-aircraft combat, 80 enemy UAVs were shot down in the Odesa, Sumy, Cherkasy, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Chernihiv, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Kharkiv, Kherson, Volyn, and Vinnytsia Regions.
44 russian drones were lost in location, 2 - flew to Belarus, up to 10 enemy UAVs - in the airspace of the central regions of Ukraine.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on the night of Thursday, October 17, russian troops attacked the territory of Ukraine with a Kh-59 guided air missile, as well as 56 attack UAVs and unmanned aerial vehicles of an unknown type; air defense forces managed to destroy 22 enemy drones, 27 UAVs were lost in location, 2 - left the airspace of Ukraine, 5 - hit infrastructure objects.