Air defence forces destroyed 17 shaheds out of 18

Air defence forces destroyed 17 shaheds out of 18

On the night of June 6, the Russians attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region with two Iskander-M ballistic missiles from the Taganrog region, and also attacked with 18 attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type from the regions of Primorsko-Akhtarsk - Russian Federation, Cape Chauda - Crimea.

This was announced by Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk.

“The enemy’s air attack was repelled by mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defence Forces, anti-aircraft missile forces, fighter aircraft and electronic warfare units of the Air Force,” the statement said.

As a result of anti-aircraft combat, 17 attack UAVs were shot down in the Mykolaiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya and Khmelnytskyi regions.