Defense forces shot down two enemy Shahed drones during the night
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- Sofiia Telishevska
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On the night of January 6, the Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with the help of two attack drones. Both enemy UAVs were shot down in Mykolaiv and Khmelnytskyi regions.
This was reported by the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The enemy launched Shahed-136/131 type drones from the Primorsko-Akhtarsk region (Russian Federation).
According to the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as of December 31, 2023, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Defense Forces have destroyed 3,095 Shahed-136/131 type attack UAVs out of 3,940 launched by the occupiers in Ukraine.
- On the morning of January 2, Russia massively attacked Ukraine with missiles. According to the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, most of them were released by the occupiers in the direction of Kyiv. Air defense forces shot down 72 missiles, including 10 out of 10 Daggers and 62 cruise missiles. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhnyi called the destruction of 10 Daggers during one Russian attack a record.