Air Force: Russia attacked Ukraine with 60 drones, most were shot down, the rest were “lost in location”

From 10:00 a.m. on December 23 to 09:00 a.m. on December 24, the Russian Armed Forces attacked Ukraine with 60 attack UAVs of the Shahed type and drones of other types from the directions of the cities of Bryansk, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

“The air attack was repulsed by anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Air Force and Defense Forces of Ukraine. As of 10:00 a.m., the downing of 36 Shahed-type attack UAVs and drones of other types in the Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhya, Dnipropetrovsk, and Khmelnytsky regions was confirmed. Due to the active countermeasures of the Defense Forces, 23 enemy drone simulators were lost in location (without negative consequences),” the message reads.

According to these data, one drone still remains in the air.

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 of the Russian Federation and emphasize that they are purposeful in nature.