Friday17 January 2025
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Air defense forces shot down 46 Russian drones that were targeting Ukraine.

On the night of January 9, Russian forces launched an attack on Ukraine using 70 Shahed strike drones and various types of decoy UAVs. The air defense systems successfully neutralized 46 enemy targets.

This was reported by the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The enemy launched drones from four different directions — Millerovo, Oryol, Kursk, Bryansk, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk. The air assault was countered by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Air Forces, and the Defense Forces of Ukraine.

As a result of the combat operations, 46 Shahed-type strike drones and other types of unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions.

Additionally, 24 enemy imitation drones were lost in terms of location. The Air Forces noted that the debris from the downed strike drones caused damage to private homes in the Kharkiv, Sumy, and Cherkasy regions.