Ukrainian forces down nine out of ten Shahed drones overnight

Ukrainian forces down nine out of ten Shahed drones overnight

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Units of mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian defense forces destroyed nine out of ten enemy Shahed-136/131 attack drones on the night of April 1-2.

Ukrainian Air Force Commander, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, announced this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

According to him, the Russians attacked Ukraine with a Kh-59 guided air missile launched from the temporarily captured part of the Zaporizhzhia region ten strike drones launched from Cape Chauda (temporarily occupied Crimea).

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Nine Shahed-136/131 drones were destroyed in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

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