Ukrainian forces shoot down 73 enemy drones, another 58 lost from tracking

Ukrainian forces shoot down 73 enemy drones, another 58 lost from tracking

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The Defense Forces of Ukraine have shot down 73 Russian drones. Another 58 UAVs have been lost from tracking.

The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in a post on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

“As of 08:30, 73 Shahed attack UAVs and other types of drones have been confirmed downed in the Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv and Odesa regions. As many as 58 enemy decoy drones were lost from tracking (without negative consequences),” the report says.

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The enemy attacked Ukraine with Shahed-type attack UAVs and various types of decoy drones launched from Russia’s Millerovo, Kursk, Bryansk, Shatalovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk.

Ukraine’s anti-aircraft missile troops, EW units, and mobile fire groups repelled that enemy air attack.

As a result of the enemy attack, there have been reports of damage in the Kyiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Odesa and Kharkiv regions.

As reported by Ukrinform, the Russian army’s total combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to February 14, 2025, amounted to about 855,480 troops, including another 1,200 invaders killed or wounded in the previous day.

Photo credit: Air Force

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