Ukraine downs 34/35 explosive drones in Russian night attack

The Air Force says air defense operations were active in the oblasts of Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, Poltava, Chernihiv, and Kirovohrad.

Officials in Mykolaiv, located in southern Ukraine, confirmed that 13 of the Shahed drones were successfully intercepted and downed in the region. This underscores the significant focus of the attack on this area. Throughout the night, Ukrainian air threat monitoring channels on Telegram reported multiple waves of assaults on Mykolaiv Oblast originating from the Black Sea.

The wreckage of a downed UAV sparked a fire at an agricultural storage facility in the Vesnianka community of Mykolaiv Oblast. Simultaneously, in Kyiv Oblast, debris from the Shahed drones damaged a warehouse at a civilian enterprise, resulting in another fire, as confirmed by regional authorities. Fortunately, both fires were promptly extinguished, and there were no reported injuries.

In recent months, Russia carries Shahed drone attacks against Ukrainian cities every night, sometimes accompanying them with missile strikes.