At night, 22 attack UAVs were shot down over Ukraine. Two more drones left the airspace in the direction of Belarus, 27 attack UAVs and drones of an unknown type were locally lost as a result of active counteraction to the electronic warfare of the Defense Forces.
The air force reported on the morning of October 17 that air defense was operating in Sumy, Kyiv, Poltava, Chernigov, Zhytomyr, Nikolaev, Cherkasy, Odessa and Ternopil regions.
Five strikes by attack UAVs were recorded on infrastructure facilities in the front-line areas.
The mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, said that in the Desnyansky district of the capital, after an enemy attack, a small fragment of a UAV was found on the territory of a kindergarten. Broken window glass inside the establishment. There is no other damage or destruction. No victims were found.
Also in the Desnyansky district, UAV debris fell in an open area. There were no destructions or casualties.
Source: Racurs
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