Ukraine's Air Force downs all 32 Russian Shahed drones overnight

Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 32 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs on the night of 4-5 July, all of which were shot down.

Source: Ukraine’s Air Force on Telegram

Quote from the Air Force: "During the night, the defenders of the skies shot down all 32 Shahed drones in Mykolaiv, Odesa, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Chernihiv and Cherkasy oblasts."

Details: It is reported that the Russians had launched the drones from the vicinities of the Russian cities of Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk.

The attack was repelled by fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force, mobile fire groups of Ukrainian defence forces and electronic warfare units. 

Background:

• Ukraine’s Air Force reported after 22:30 on 4 July that Russian attack drones had been detected in a number of Ukraine’s oblasts.
• Wreckage from downed Russian drones damaged six private houses and a car in Bucha district in Kyiv Oblast; there were no casualties. 

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