Russians attack Ukraine with 11 Shahed drones, air defence downs all
Pravda Ukraine
Russian forces launched 11 Shahed kamikaze drones over Ukraine on the night of 25 October and the air defence forces managed to down all the Russian targets.
Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook; Ukrainian Air Force on Telegram
Details: Later, the Ukrainian Air Force specified that the Russians had launched drones from the southeast (the city of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Russia) on the night of 24-25 October.
Fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units and mobile fire groups were deployed to repel the air attack. Specifically, air defence forces were responding in Cherkasy, Kherson, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi and Mykolaiv oblasts.
In total, the Russians launched 6 missile strikes and 51 airstrikes, and fired 66 times from multiple-launch rocket systems at Ukrainian positions and populated areas.
In particular, airstrikes were carried out on:
- Leonivka (Chernihiv Oblast);
- Synkivka, Ivanivka and Pishchane (Kharkiv Oblast);
- Nevske and Serebrianka Forest (Luhansk Oblast);
- Siversk, Vyimka, Dyliivka, Avdiivka, Marinka, Pobieda and Staromaiorske (Donetsk Oblast);
- Zmiivka, Novoberyslav, Beryslav, Kozatske, Odradokamianka, Mykolaivka and Mykilske (Kherson Oblast).
Over 100 settlements in Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts came under Russian artillery fire.
Russian terrorist attacks have resulted in deaths and injuries among the civilian population. Apartment blocks and private residential buildings as well as other civilian infrastructure were destroyed and damaged.
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