Defence forces shot down 18 enemy shaheds this night

Defence forces shot down 18 enemy shaheds this night

On the night of May 14, the military managed to shoot down all 18 suicide bombs launched by the enemy.

This was announced by the commander of the Air Force, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk .

The enemy launched 18 Shahed-type attack UAVs from Cape Chauda and one Iskander-M ballistic missile from the occupied Crimea.

The strike was repelled by fighter aircraft and anti-aircraft missile forces of the Air Force, mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces and electronic warfare units.

As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, all 18 enemy “martyrs” were shot down within the Kyiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson and Khmelnytskyi regions.