Ukraine downs 9/15 explosive drones, two missiles during Russia’s latest air attack

One of the airspace monitoring channels linked to the Ukrainian Air Defense forces, Nikolayevskyi Vanyok, noted that the weather conditions complicated the destruction of Russia's explosive drones as it was foggy.

Also, on the evening of 11 December, anti-aircraft missile units belonging to the Vostok Air Command successfully intercepted and destroyed two Kh-59 guided missiles in the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts, the Air Force says.

In recent weeks, Russia has launched Shahed drone attacks every night, launching the drones across various regions of Ukraine, presumably in attempts to bypass Ukrainian air defenses and to trigger as many regional air raid alerts as possible, targeting various Ukrainian oblasts. The Ukrainian air defenders usually shoot down most of Shaheds during such attacks.

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