Air defense forces down all kamikaze drones that Russia used to attack Ukraine overnight

Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with 11 Shahed strike drones launched from the Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk area on the night of August 18-19.

Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk said this in a post on the Telegram messaging app, Ukrinform reports.

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He added that mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, anti-aircraft missile units, aircraft and EW units of the Ukrainian Air Force had shot down all enemy UAVs in the Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Sumy and Donetsk regions.