Ukrainian air defenses shoot down five enemy Shahed UAVs overnight

The forces and means of the mobile firing groups of the Defense Forces and EW units of the Air Force of Ukraine shot down five enemy Shahed-131/136 UAVs in the Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad and Zaporizhzhia regions.

Ukrainian Air Force Commander, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk said this in a post on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

"On the night of August 4, 2024, the enemy attacked the Kharkiv region with two S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles, the Poltava region with two Kh-59 guided missiles from the airspace of the Kursk region, and launched five Shahed combat UAVs from Russia’s Primorsko-Akhtarsk," the post says.

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As reported, Russia attacked Ukraine with combat drones.