On the night of May 3, Russian invaders once again attacked Ukraine from the air, using missiles and UAVs for strikes. The forces and air defense systems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down 2 enemy missiles and the same number of attack drones.
This was reported by RBC-Ukraine , with reference to the commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk .
It is noted that in general the occupiers launched across Ukraine that night:
two Iskander-K cruise missiles – from the territory of occupied Crimea in the direction of the Dneipropetrovsk region; four unmanned aerial vehicles (type to be determined - Ed.) in the northern direction.“Two were destroyed by units of mobile fire groups of the Defence Forces in the Chernihiv region, two more ceased to exist on their own,” the general notes regarding the UAV.
As for the missiles, both of them were shot down by anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force.