AFU Shoot Down 12 Russian Shaheds And One UAV At Night

(MENAFN- UkrinForm) On the night of 20 July, the Defence Forces shot down 12 Russian Shahed attack drones and one UAV of an unspecified type.

According to Ukrinform, this was reported in a Telegram message by the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk.

On the night of 20 July, Russians attacked Ukraine with three Iskander-M ground-launched ballistic missiles from the Voronezh region, as well as one Iskander-K cruise missile and 16 Shahed-type attack UAVs from the Kursk region, and used one UAV of an unspecified type.

Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv and Kyiv regions were attacked.

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As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, units of mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defence Forces, anti-aircraft missile troops and electronic warfare of the Air Force shot down 12 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs and one UAV of an unspecified type.

As reported by Ukrinform, fragments of a Russian drone fell in the Solomianskyi district of Kyiv .

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