Over 100 Russian drones launched against Ukraine: 57 downed, 39 go off radar
Pravda Ukraine
The Russians attacked Ukraine with 104 Shahed attack UAVs and decoy drones on the night of 26-27 January; 57 of them were destroyed by Ukrainian air defence forces, 39 others disappeared from radar, and the attack caused damage in four oblasts.
Source: Ukrainian Air Force on Telegram
Quote from the Air Force: “As of 09:00, 57 Shahed attack UAVs and other types of drones were confirmed to have been shot down in Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts.
Thirty-nine enemy decoy drones disappeared from radar (causing no adverse effects).”
Details: The Air Force added that the Russian attack resulted in damage in Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kyiv oblasts – infrastructure facilities, apartment blocks and residential buildings were damaged.
The Russians launched drones from the Russian cities of Oryol, Kursk, Millerovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, as well as from Cape Chauda in temporarily occupied Crimea.
The air attack was repelled by aircraft, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Air Force and defence forces.
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