Russian forces launched overnight drone attacks on several Ukrainian regions using Shahed-type drones, Ukraine’s Air Force reported.
Starting at 7:00 p.m. local time on Sunday, Russian forces deployed 141 Shahed drones and other decoy UAVs, according to Ukrainian military officials.
By 8:00 a.m. on Monday, Ukrainian forces had shot down 93 drones across multiple regions, including Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Kherson, and Donetsk, the Ukrainian Air Force Command said. An additional 43 drones reportedly went “off radar without causing negative consequences,” while two “went to back Russia.”
Ukraine’s Air Force also reported that Russian forces carried out a missile strike on the Sumy region using an Iskander-M system. Local officials have not yet commented on the aftermath of that strike.
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