KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s air drive stated on Saturday Russia launched a complete of 67 long-range drones in a mass in a single day assault, 58 of which it was capable of shoot down.
The air drive stated in an announcement on the Telegram app that air defence models had been scrambled into motion in 11 areas throughout Ukraine.
Reuters correspondents in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, heard a sequence of explosions shortly after 3 a.m. (0000 GMT) on Saturday, a few of which resounded loudly across the metropolis centre.
Because the begin of its invasion in February 2022, Moscow has launched hundreds of missiles and long-range drones into Ukraine.
Kyiv’s air drive stated the Shahed drones had been launched from two border areas in Russia in addition to from the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea.