That is according to a report on an official account of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook.
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As the report reads, starting 19:00 on Saturday, February 22, the russians launched an attack on Ukraine using 267 Shahed-type attack UAVs and other drone decoys from various directions, including Oryol, Bryansk, Kursk, Shatalovo, Millerovo, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia, as well as Chauda in Crimea. it is a record number of UAVs since the start of the full-scale invasion.Additionally, three Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles were launched from Crimea.
According to Ukraine’s Air Force, the aerial assault was countered by aviation, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare units, and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and Defense Forces of Ukraine.
"By 08:00 on Sunday, February 23, as many as 138 Shahed-type attack drones and other UAVs had been confirmed shot down in Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Mykolaiv, Odesa, and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Some 119 enemy drone decoys disappeared from radar (without negative consequences), with three flying toward belarus and one toward russia," the statment on the official account of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reads.
According to Ukraine’s Air Force the enemy attack caused damage in Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Poltava, Kyiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
As Ukraine's State Emergency Service in Kyiv earlier stated on its official account on Facebook the attacks caused significant damage in multiple locations in multiple locations of Ukrainian capital.
In particular:
- in the Holosiivskyi district, a fire broke out in a single-story private house and was extinguished over an area of 100 square meters;
- in the Darnytskyi district, one attack damaged a private home and several vehicles; the resulting fire was put out with improvised means. Another strike ignited a single-story building, with flames spreading to a neighboring structure before firefighters contained the blaze within 35 square meters;
- in the Pecherskyi district, a non-residential building sustained window damage, but no fires were reported.
Reports of potential casualties are being verified.
As Defense Express reported, russia used attack drones to terrorize Ukrainian civilians amid missile shortage. We also wrote on how Ukrainian military 'harvested' russian lost in location Shahed-type UAVs and what's new in these drones.
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