On the night from Friday to Saturday, the Russians launched another massive drone attack on Ukraine. The Kiev Military Administration reported on social media that “Shahedy began arriving into the territory before midnight, from various directions.”
“The drones approached Kiev at around 3 a.m.The alert announced in the capital lasted 18 minutes, during which the air defense was working loudly over Kiev,” the release added.
War in Ukraine. Russian attack. Russian drone debris in front of parliament
It was emphasized, however, that all enemy drones that were heading towards the Ukrainian capital, were destroyed. Drone debris fell, among others, in the Dniprovsky district on the grounds of a kindergarten. Initial information indicates that no one was injured.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine announced on social media that in the morning The wreckage of a drone shot down by Ukrainian air defense was found near the parliament building. It added that no damage was reported.
A member of the Ukrainian parliament, Maksym Buzhansky, said that the drone he tried to break into the buildingbut thanks to anti-aircraft defense “he fell before the threshold”.
Together Ukraine managed to shoot down 58 of the 67 Shaheds sent by Russia. According to the Unian news agency, the drones were launched from Cape Chauda, Jejsk and KurskaThe Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that six aircraft had turned back from Ukrainian airspace towards BelarusRussia and the temporarily occupied Luhansk region. In turn, three drones were lost in the territory controlled by the Ukrainian side – it is possible that they could also have been destroyed.
War in Ukraine. Massive attack by Russian drones. Air defense was working
At night, aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, and mobile shooting groups of electronic warfare units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces were involved in repelling Russian attacks.
But it wasn't just the units in Kiev that had a busy night.”The anti-aircraft defense was working in the regions of Vinnytsia, Rivne, Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Sumy, Kherson and Poltava,” the Ukrainian military said in a statement.