Friday07 February 2025
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Air defense forces shot down 38 Russian drones that were targeting Ukraine.

On the night of February 3rd, Russian forces launched an attack on Ukraine using 71 Shahed strike drones and various types of decoy drones. The air defense system successfully neutralized 38 of these targets.

This was reported by the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The enemy launched drones from the areas of Orel, Kursk, Bryansk, Millerovo, Primorsk-Akhtarsk, and the temporarily occupied Crimea.

The air assault was countered by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Air Forces, and Defense Forces.

As a result of combat operations, 38 Shahed attack drones and drones of other types were shot down in the Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia, and Khmelnytskyi regions.

Additionally, 25 enemy imitation drones were lost to radar detection. According to the Air Forces, as a result of the enemy attack, the Sumy, Kharkiv, and Cherkasy regions were affected.