That is according to a statement of the Command of the Ukrainian Air Force on its official page on Facebook.
"On the morning of October 8, in the Mykolaiv region, soldiers of a mobile fire group of the Kherson anti-aircraft missile brigade shot down a Shahed-136 kamikaze drone with an Utyos large-caliber machine gun," the statement said.
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The command stressed that Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners will not stop until "they turn the Russian invaders in the Ukrainian sky into scrap metal."
The post was illustrated with a relevant video:
The enemy actively uses UAVs of various types to conduct reconnaissance and carry out strikes. Last day, defenders of Ukraine shot down eight UAVs on different axes: five of the Orlan-10 type and three of the Shahed-136 type.
As Defense Express reported earlier, Ukraine’s Air Defence Shot Down 60% of 86 Iranian Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drones That russia Launched.
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