Air Force: 51 Russian drones were shot down at night, another 30 did not reach their targets

On the night of December 18, the Russian military attacked Ukraine with the 81st Shahed attack drone and drones of other types from the regions of Bryansk, Kursk, Millerov, Orel in the Russian Federation, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

“As of 09:00, the downing of 51 Shahed-type attack UAVs and drones of other types has been confirmed in the Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhia regions. As a result of the active countermeasures of the Defense Forces, 30 enemy drone simulators were lost in their location (without negative consequences),” the message reads.

No hits were recorded, no information about destruction or casualties was received, the Air Force added.

The Russian military regularly attacks Ukrainian regions with various types of weapons – attack UAVs, rockets, anti-aircraft missiles, and anti-aircraft missiles.

The leadership of Russia denies that the Russian army during a full-scale war inflicts targeted strikes on the civilian infrastructure of the cities and villages of Ukraine, killing the civilian population and destroying hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy and water supply facilities.

The Ukrainian authorities and international organizations qualify these strikes as war crimes by the Russian Federation and emphasize that they are purposeful in nature.