“52 out of 103 drones were shot down in the sky over Ukraine – Air Force Air Defense Forces of Ukraine shot down 52 out of 103 enemy drones launched by the Russian Federation from various directions. 44 drones were lost in location, damage was recorded in several areas.”, — write on: unn.ua
On the night of December 22, 2024 (from 09:00 on December 21), the enemy attacked with 103 attack UAVs of the “Shahed” type and drones of other types from the directions of Bryansk, Millerovo, Orel, Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Berdyansk. The launch of an Iskander-M ballistic missile from Crimea in the direction of Kherson Oblast was also recorded.
As of 10:00 a.m., the shooting down of 52 Shahed-type attack UAVs and other types of drones in Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhia regions has been confirmed
Due to the active opposition of the Defense Forces, 44 enemy drone simulators were lost in location (without negative consequences), one UAV flew in the direction of Belarus.
In the Kherson, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Zhytomyr, and Kyiv regions, private businesses, apartment buildings, and citizens’ property were damaged due to the Russian attack, without any casualties.