The occupiers launched a drone attack: explosions heard in 14 regions of Ukraine

Last night, the Russian forces carried out a massive attack across Ukraine.

Details were reported by the Ukrainian Air Force.

"The occupiers attacked Ukraine with "Shahed"-type attack UAVs and unidentified drones launched from the directions of Orel, Kursk, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and the temporarily occupied Crimea. Radio-technical troops of the Air Force detected and tracked 145 enemy UAVs," the statement reads.

As of 11:00 a.m., air defense systems had downed 71 enemy drones in Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson regions.

71 UAVs dissapeard from radars, probably due to active countermeasures by the Defense Forces' electronic warfare. Another drone flew towards Belarus.

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