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.
Infographic: Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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.
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