Ukrainian forces shoot down all 14 Shahed UAVs launched overnight by Russia
Saturday, 17 August 2024, 08:39
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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