Ukraine shoots down half of 63 drones launched by Russia overnight
Source: Ukraine’s Air Force
The early hours of Friday saw Ukraine foiling another wave of Russian drones. According to Ukraine’s air defenses they shot down ‘more than half’ of 63 drones.
The assault involved both Shahed combat drones and unidentified UAV models that came buzzing from multiple locations including Orel, Kursk, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia. By dawn on October 25, Ukrainian forces had taken down 36 drones, while 16 others lost contact and failed to reach their targets.
Ukrainian defenders intercepted the drones across the regions of Odessa, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Lviv, Rivne, and Poltava. The most of them were downed over Odessa and Kyiv.
Ukrainian air defenses said they relied on a coordinated effort of anti-aircraft missile units, aviation, electronic warfare units, and mobile fire teams from the Air Force and Defense Forces.
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