Russians launched 56 drones: 22 were shot down, 5 hit infrastructure objects
Pravda Ukraine
The Russian troops attacked Ukraine on the night of 17 October with 56 attack UAVs and drones of an unspecified type and a Kh-59 air-to-surface missile. 22 drones were destroyed, 27 disappeared from radar, and 2 more headed towards Belarus. However, there were several hits on infrastructure objects in Ukraine.
Source: Ukraine’s Air Force on Telegram
Quote from the Air Force: “22 enemy UAVs were shot down as a result of anti-aircraft efforts in Sumy, Kyiv, Poltava, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, Odesa and Ternopil oblasts.
Two drones left the airspace in the direction of Belarus, 27 attack UAVs and drones of unspecified type were lost due to active counteraction of the electronic warfare of the Ukrainian defence forces.”
Details: It is also reported that five strike UAVs hit infrastructure facilities in the oblasts near the line of contact.
The Russians fired the missile from the airspace in Kursk Oblast, while the drones were launched from the Russian cities of Kursk, Oryol and Primorsko-Akhtarsk.
Aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and other branches of Ukraine’s defence forces were involved in countering the attack.
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