Air defense forces shoot down ten kamikaze drones in southern Ukraine

Ukrainian air defense forces shot down ten Shahed-136 kamikaze drones in the southern direction last night.

Serhii Bratchuk, a spokesperson for the Odesa regional military administration, said this in a post on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

According to him, on the night of December 19, Russian troops attacked Ukraine with Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones.

In the southern direction, the air defense forces and means of the Air Command South destroyed ten drones, Bratchuk said.

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Earlier reports said that kamikaze drones launched by Russian forces on the night of December 19 damaged infrastructure and private houses in the Kyiv region.

In Kyiv, during a night drone attack, several explosions were heard in the Solomianskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts of the city.