On the night of December 14, russian troops launched 132 Shahed attack UAVs and other types of drones over the territory of Ukraine, air defense forces managed to shoot down 58 drones, another 72 drones did not reach their targets.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced this on the Telegram channel, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
"On the night of December 14, 2024, the enemy attacked Ukraine with Shahed attack UAVs and other types of drones from the Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Oryol, Bryansk, Millerovo regions of the russian federation. A total of 132 enemy UAVs were used in the strike," the report says.
As of 09:00 a.m., it was confirmed that 58 Shahed attack UAVs and drones of other types were shot down in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kyiv, Poltava, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kirovohrad Regions.
In addition, due to the active countermeasures of the Defense Forces, 72 enemy drones did not reach their targets (lost in location), two returned to russia.
The air attack was repelled by anti-aircraft missile troops, aviation, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Air Force and Defense Forces of Ukraine, including effective work of F-16 fighters.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, from 02:00 p.m. on December 12 to 10:00 a.m. on December 13, russian troops carried out a massive strike on Ukraine with 94 missiles of various types and 193 attack drones; air defense forces managed to shoot down 81 missiles and 80 drones, another 105 drones did not reach their targets. The enemy's missile and drone strike was mainly directed at Ukrainian energy facilities.
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