Kiev announces the downing of 79 Russian drones in the last 24 hours…and Moscow destroys 12 Ukrainian drones

The Ukrainian Army Air Forces announced today, Monday, the downing of 79 Russian “Shahed” drones. Two Kh-59 guided missiles flew over the country’s skies on combat missions in the last 24 hours.

 

The Air Force said in a statement carried by the “Ukrin Forum” news agency: The official Ukrainian newspaper said that the Russian army attacked Ukraine at 18:00 local time yesterday, Sunday, with two Kh-59 guided missiles from the south and about 128 Shahed and other types of attack drones from the directions of Bryansk, Melrovo, Orel, Kursk, and Primorskoe-Akhtarsk, Russia.

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The statement added that the Air Forces, anti-aircraft missile forces, and units Electronic warfare and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Air Force and Defense Forces were all able to repel the recent attacks, as two Kh-59 missiles and 79 Shahed attack drones and other types of drones were confirmed shot down in the regions of Mykolaiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kiev, Chernigov, Cherkasy, Dnipro and Zhytomir. And Kirovohrad and Vinnytsia, while no injuries were recorded.

 

The statement continued that the dropping of these The aircraft caused damage to the buildings of some companies, institutions and private homes in the regions of Chernigov, Sumy, Cherkasy, Poltava and Kiev, and according to preliminary reports, there were no casualties or human losses.

 

For his part, the head of the The military administration of the Ukrainian region of Zaporozhye, Ivan Fedorov, said that the Russian army bombed 12 towns in the region 542 times during the 24 hours.

 

Fedorov said in a statement carried by the official Ukrainian news agency “Ukrin Forum” on Monday, “The Russian army carried out 13 air strikes on the towns of Hulyapol and Novoandrivka.” And Novopavlevka and Timirivka, and up to 353 drones of various modifications attacked the towns of Kamyansky And Primorsky, Hulyapol, Shcherbaky, Novoandrivka, Novodanilevka, Mala Tokmashka, Belohria, and Novodarivka, and 14 attacks from multi-target rocket launchers targeted Stepnohirsk, Novoandrivka, Novodanilevka, and Mala Tokmashka.

 

The Ukrainian official indicated that the Russians also carried out 162 blow Artillery shelling on Kamyansky, Hulyapuli, Shcherbaky, Novoandrivka, Novodanilevka, Mala Tokmashka, Belohria and Novodarivka, while five reports were received of damage or destruction to residential buildings and infrastructure. 

 

For its part, the Ministry of Defense announced Russian Defense said on Monday that air defense systems destroyed 12 Ukrainian drones over the territory last night The Ministry stated in a statement carried by the Russian Sputnik news agency that the air defense systems on duty destroyed 12 drones, and 7 drones were shot down. Over the territory of the Kursk province, two over the Bryansk province, two over the Belgorod province, and another one over the Crimean island.

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