Ukraine's air defence shoots down 41 out of 112 Russian drones, 35 go off radar
Source: Air Force Command on Facebook
Details: As of 09:00, air defence has downed 76 Russian Shahed UAVs and other types of drones over Ukraine's eastern, northern, southern and central oblasts.
A total of 41 drones were shot down by air defence and 35 disappeared from radar suppressed by electronic warfare systems (without causing adverse effects).
The Russian attack affected Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Cherkasy and Kirovohrad oblasts.
The air attack was repelled by Ukrainian aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare systems and mobile fire teams from the defence forces.
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