Ukrainian forces shoot down 103 enemy drones, another 67 lost from tracking

Ukrainian forces shoot down 103 enemy drones, another 67 lost from tracking

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The Ukrainian Defense Forces have shot down 103 drones used by the Russian army to attack Ukraine.

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

Starting at 19:00 on Monday, February 17, Russians attacked with 176 Shahed-type attack UAVs and various types of decoy drones launched from six directions: Orel, Bryansk, Kursk, Millerovo, Shatalovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and temporarily occupied Crimea.

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

As of 09:00, 103 Shahed attack UAVs and other types of drones have been confirmed downed in the Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions.

Read also: War update: 139 combat clashes in past day, Pokrovsk sector remains hottest

As many as 67 enemy decoy drones were lost from tracking (without negative consequences).

The Kirovohrad, Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Cherkasy regions were affected by the enemy attack.

As reported by Ukrinform, on the night of February 18, a Russian drone hit a high-rise building in Dolyna, Kirovohrad region, injuring a woman and her two children.

Photo: Air Force

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