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Ukrainian forces shoot down all 14 Shahed UAVs launched overnight by Russia

Saturday, 17 August 2024, 08:39
Ukrainian forces shoot down all 14 Shahed UAVs launched overnight by Russia
Fourteen Shahed UAVs have been shot down. Photo: Ukraine's Air Force

Ukrainian air defence units have shot down all 14 Shaheds launched by Russia overnight.

Source: Ukraine's Air Force

Details: In addition to the Shahed drones, the Russians fired an Iskander-K cruise missile on the city of Sumy from Voronezh Oblast, Russia.

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It was not intercepted.

The Ukrainian military noted that the Russian UAVs had been launched from the areas of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Yeysk, and Kursk in Russia.

All 14 Shaheds have been destroyed in Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv oblasts.

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Background: Dmytro Drozdenko, Head of Sumy City Military Administration, reported that the area of Svobody Avenue in Sumy had been struck.

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