Ukrainian Air Defense Forces destroy 98 out of 134 Shahed drones last week - General Staff
Last week, the Air Defense Forces destroyed 98 out of 134 enemy Shahed 136/131 drones and a Ka-52 combat helicopter.
12 February 2024
Last week, the Air Defense Forces destroyed 98 out of 134 enemy Shahed 136/131 drones and a Ka-52 combat helicopter.
Following Russia’s overnight drone attack on the Dnipropetrovsk region’s Pavlohrad, over 53,000 household consumers were left without electricity, as well as seven mines and a plant.
In the Kharkiv region, on the night of February 12, Russian troops fired on the village of Lyptsi, and also struck the village of Slobozhanske with an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system.
Over the past 24 hours, the enemy struck 199 times in Zaporizhzhia region, including 72 UAV attacks.
About 600 combat engagements took place in the frontline last week, the enemy launched 79 missiles and over 420 air strikes. The Defense Forces repelled 240 enemy attacks in the Avdiivka direction and 160 in the Marinka direction.
As a result of the fall of the wreckage of enemy kamikaze drones in the south, a fire broke out in the open territory of an infrastructure facility.
From February 24, 2022 to February 12, 2024, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have eliminated nearly 395,990 Russian invaders, including 790 over the past day alone.
Russia’s Navy has deployed on combat duty in the Black Sea a grouping of five warships, including two missile carriers carrying a total of 16 Kalibr cruise missiles.
In the Kirovohrad region, in the Kropyvnytskyi district, an explosion sounded during an air raid, with no casualties or damage.
Soldiers with the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine operating in Donetsk direction tore down the Russian flag, which the invaders put up to mark the territory as “theirs”.
Over the past 24 hours, 100 combat encounters have been recorded between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian invasion troops in various sectors of the front.
Ukraine’s air defense forces shot down an incoming missile and 14 Shahed one-way attack drones launched by Russia in the early hours of Monday.
Russia’s war against Ukraine will drag on until the Kremlin realizes it cannot win, therefore it is important to continue supporting Ukraine and providing the nation with everything it needs.
In the past week, demining units of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's State Special Transport Service have found and disposed 2,214 explosive objects in four regions.
The relatives of mobilized Russian soldiers continue to protest throughout Russia despite previous Kremlin efforts to censor similar protests and suppress any possible resurgence of a broader social movement in support of mobilized Russian soldiers.
11 February 2024
The results of DNA testing allowed law enforces to identify all victims of the Russian drone attack that hit an oil depot in Kharkiv and caused a massive fire in the residential block nearby in the early hours of Saturday, February 10.
In the temporarily occupied city of Mariupol, on February 11, an Ural military truck drove over a civilian vehicle. The driver of the latter died on the spot and a child, who was also in the car, was seriously injured.
Border guards with the Kherson Detachment published raw footage of FPV drones attacking Russian forces on the Ukrainian battlefield.
Europe and the U.S. should strengthen support for Ukraine and provide the nation reliable security assurances with the prospect of NATO membership.
Since the beginning of 2024, Ukraine’s defenders intercepted 359 Shahed one-way kamikaze drones launched by Russian invaders.
Ukraine is working to increase the effectiveness of mobile fire groups and to provide even more regions of Ukraine with electronic warfare systems.
The Moldovan border police have discovered fragments of a Russian Shahed one-way attack drone near the village of Etulia, Vulcanesti district, close to the Moldovan-Ukrainian border.
Ninety-five combat engagements between Ukraine's defense forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the front lines in the past 24 hours.
Russian forces attacked the city of Nikopol and the Marhanets and Pokrovsk communities in the Dnipropetrovsk region with heavy artillery and kamikaze drones on Sunday, February 11.
Ukraine plans to set the production of electronic warfare equipment on market rails, as was the case with drones.
Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk, the newly appointed commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, has said he is aware of the entire range of tasks and will do everything possible to strengthen the part of the Ukrainian army entrusted to him.
About 15,000 Nepali citizens are fighting in Ukraine as part of Russian troops, receiving a salary of at least $2,000 a month.
Since the beginning of the full-scale war, 1,523 medical facilities have been damaged and another 195 destroyed in Ukraine.
Two men sustained shrapnel wounds as a result of a Russian air strike on the village of Monastyrske in the Novoraisk territorial community of Kherson region.
A medical facility was damaged in Russia’s shelling of Kherson on February 11.