Kiev said it shot down 20 Russian drones overnight

Ukraine's air defense systems have repelled 20 drone attacks launched by Russia overnight targeting 7 regions across the country, Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleschuk announced today. The drones were shot down over the southern regions of Mykolayiv, Odessa and Kherson, the central regions of Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava and Vinnytsia, as well as western Lviv, Oleschuk said in a post on the Telegram app. Russian forces launched the Shahed drones in several waves, targeting important infrastructure and energy facilities, Ukrainian military and regional officials said. Maxim Kozytskyi, the regional governor of Lviv, said that the drone debris damaged important infrastructure facilities in the western part of the country due to a fire caused. In the southern region of Odessa, power lines were destroyed by drone debris, according to a Telegram post by Oleh Kiper, the governor of Odessa. The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine announced at the same time that in the central region […]
Source: News Beast

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