Ukraine said this morning that it had shot down 19 of the 20 attack drones launched overnight by Russia, notably against Odessa, a large southern port where three people were injured.
On Tuesday evening, Ukrainian authorities had already reported 17 injured in Kharkiv, a large city in the northeast, after a double S-300 missile attack which also damaged around twenty buildings, according to the Minister of Defense. ‘Interior, Igor Klymenko. According to the same source, in Odessa, “three people were injured in a drone attack”.
In total, “on the night of January 17, 2024, the enemy struck with 20 attack drones of the Shahed-136/131 type,” said the Ukrainian Air Force, specifying that it had destroyed 19 in flight. without saying where, and without indicating what happened to the 20th machine.