Ukraine downs 13/13 Russian drones in overnight attack
During the night of 5 April, the Russian forces attacked the territory of Ukraine with 13 Shahed type drones from Cape Chaudan in occupied Crimea, the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported.
“Our mobile air defense units successfully engaged and neutralized all 13 Shahed 131/136 drones in the Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts,” Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces wrote on Telegram.
Additionally, according to him, the Russians attacked Ukraine with two S-300/S-400 surface-to-air guided missiles and three Iskander-M ballistic missiles. They launched them from the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine. Oleshchuk did not report on the consequences of these strikes.
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