On its X account (formerly Twitter), the Ukrainian army claims to have destroyed 28 Russian Shaded drones during the night from Wednesday to Thursday. “The enemy attacked Ukraine with ‘Shahed’ attack drones from the northern and southern directions”, particularly from the Russian border region of Belgorod and from Cape Chauda, in the east of the peninsula. of Crimea annexed by Russia in 2014. In total, 33 drone launches were spotted and anti-aircraft defense was mobilized in “at least six regions” of the country, she said.
Furthermore, a strike by Moscow damaged port warehouses in the southern region of Odessa, according to the armed forces of southern Ukraine, which indicated that “the enemy’s night attack, which mobilized a group of attack drones in our area of responsibility, was once again directed against the Danube port infrastructure. “Warehouse buildings in the southern port area of the Odessa region were damaged by a strike,” added the same source on Telegram.
The local governor, Oleg Kiper, reported damage to “port infrastructure and residential buildings” in the Izmail district, as well as an octogenarian hospitalized with burns. According to the army, Ukrainian forces destroyed ten Russian vehicles in this region and four others in the neighboring region of Mykolaiv. She did not specify whether these 14 aircraft are part of the total of 28 shot down and counted by the air force.