On the night of June 8, Russian troops again attacked Ukraine with drones and one missile. The air defense managed to shoot down most of the UAVs and X-59.
This was reported on the Telegram of Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk.
Thus, on the night of June 8, the enemy attacked Ukraine with an X-59 guided missile from the Kursk region of the Russian Federation and launched 13 attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type from the areas of Kursk (Russian Federation) and Cape Chauda (Crimea).
“As a result of combat work, crews of mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defence Forces and electronic warfare equipment of the Air Force shot down nine suicide bombers and one X-59 within the Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, Poltava and Dnipropetrovsk regions,” Oleshchuk said.