Ukrainian air defenses shoot down five enemy Shahed UAVs overnight

Ukrainian air defenses shoot down five enemy Shahed UAVs overnight

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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.

Read also: DIU shares video showing Russian fortifications, military infrastructure being destroyed near Sumy region

As reported, Russia attacked Ukraine with combat drones.

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