Russia launches a new attack against Ukraine and kyiv claims to have shot down 28 drones and two Russian fighters

2023-12-25 12:01:51

Ukrainian defense forces shot down 28 of 31 Shahed attack drones and two missiles launched by Russia overnight, the Air Force said in a statement today. “On the night of December 25, the enemy attacked with 31 unmanned aerial vehicles of the ‘Shahed’ type from the areas of Chauda, ​​Balaklava (Crimea) and with two aviation missiles,” the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement.

The military report stated that “as a result of aerial combat, the forces and means of the Air Force and the Defense Forces of Ukraine shot down 28 Shahed-136/131 attack unmanned aerial vehicles in the regions of Odessa, Kherson, Mikolayiv, Donetsk, Kirovograd and Khmelnitsky.”

“During the airstrike, the enemy also used a Kh-59 guided missile in the direction of Zaporizhzhia and a Kh-31P anti-radar missile from the Black Sea. Both were destroyed!” he added. He noted that “Air Force anti-aircraft missile units also destroyed two enemy aircraft: a Su-34, in the Donetsk region (reported in the afternoon), and a Su-30SM, over the Black Sea.”

Meanwhile, the Southern Defense Forces stated in a statement on Telegram that the drone attack lasted more than 6.5 hours and that 17 shaheds were shot down in the Odessa region, three in Kherson and one, respectively, in Mikolayiv and Kirovograd.

They indicated that the remains of downed drones caused damage to technical facilities of the port infrastructure of Odessa, and in the Rozdilnianski district, to an inoperative administrative building and a warehouse of an inactive facility, where the fire was quickly extinguished.

In addition, in the Berislav district of the Kherson region, a fire broke out in a warehouse due to the impact of drone debris, which firefighters were able to extinguish.

Sergey Lisak, head of the Dnipropetrovsk military administration, said five Russian drones were shot down by Ukrainian forces late yesterday afternoon while flying over the region.

In a statement on Telegram, he specified that in the Pavlograd district, the remains of a drone damaged an agricultural outbuilding and a grain loader, and in the Dniprovsky district, they fell on the premises of an inoperative company and a fire broke out in a building. of a plant, which was extinct.