The Russian aggressors attacked from the southeast using 18 Shahed-type attack drones.
On Thursday evening, the Ukrainian air defense unit destroyed 17 enemy targets, including 16 Shahed-type kamikaze drones and one guided aircraft missile. The Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported this on November 16.
“The Russians attacked from the south-eastern direction (Primorsko-Akhtarsk – Russian Federation) with 18 attack UAVs of the Shahed type. An air alert was declared in many regions, the air defense was works. As a result of combat work, 16 enemy drones were destroyed by the forces and means of the Air Force,” it said in the message.
Units involved mobile fire groups, fighter aircraft, and anti-aircraft missile units.
In addition, on the night of November 15, an X-59 guided missile was shot down in the Poltava region.
Also, around midnight, the enemy attacked civilian infrastructure in the Kharkov region with S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles. There were no initial casualties or injuries.
Earlier it became known about explosions in the Khmelnitsky region. The authorities reported the work of the air defense.
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Source: korrespondent
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