The enemy attacked at night with four missiles and 29 UAVs

The enemy attacked at night with four missiles and 29 UAVs

On the night of August 3, air defence shot down 24 Russian drones out of 29 launched.

The commander of the Air Force, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, announced this on Telegram .

The enemy launched a strike with two S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the occupied territory of the Donetsk region, and two Kh-31P anti-radar missiles from the airspace over the Black Sea.

The enemy also launched 29 Shahed-type attack UAVs from Cape Chauda in Crimea, Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Kursk in Russia.

The air attack was repelled by mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defence Forces, anti-aircraft missile forces and electronic warfare units of the Air Force.

"As a result of the air battle, 24 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs were shot down in Kherson, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr regions."