Ukraine downs all 27 Russian kamikaze UAVs launched overnight Friday

Ukraine downs all 27 Russian kamikaze UAVs launched overnight Friday

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Ukraine’s air defense forces intercepted all 27 incoming one-way attack drones Russia launched in the early hours of Friday.

That’s according to the Ukrainian Air Force press service, Ukrinform reports.

Russian invaders launched Shahed-type UAVs from the Primorsk-Akhtarsk region, the report read.

Radar operators detected and escorted 27 attack drones, the press service added.

Read also: Ukrainian scouts destroy five enemy vehicles in Zaporizhzhia sector

“All enemy UAVs were shot down by mobile fire groups of Ukraine’s Defense Forces, anti-aircraft missile units, and e-warfare capabilities available to the Air Force over Kyiv, Poltava, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk regions,” the report states.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, a military airfield is on fire near Lipetsk (Russia) after a reported drone attack.

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