On the night of January 8, Russian occupation forces attacked Ukraine with 64 drones, the Ukrainian Air Force reports.
“As of 09.00, the downing of the 41st Shahed attack UAV and other types of drones in Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Dnipro, Mykolaiv, and Kirovohrad regions has been confirmed,” the statement said.
22 enemy imitator drones were lost locally (without negative consequences), three of them flew in the direction of the Russian Federation, one – to Belarus.
The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Air Force and the Defense Forces of Ukraine.