Ninety-three drones out of 141 shot down at night, 47 lost from location – Air Force
On Monday night, Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with 141 Shahed-type attack drones and various types of imitation drones, 93 UAVs were shot down, 47 drones were lost from location and did not reach their targets, according to the Telegram channel of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"As of 08:00, the elimination of 93 Shahed-type attack UAVs and other types of drones in Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Khmelnytsky, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Kherson and Donetsk regions has been confirmed," the report says.
It is reported that on the night of Monday (from 19:00 on January 19), the enemy attacked by the 141st Shahed-type attack UAV and various types of simulator drones from five directions: Millerovo, Orel, Bryansk, Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk of the Russian Federation, and also used the Iskander-M ballistic missile from Kursk region in Sumy region.
Forty-seven enemy simulator drones were lost locationally (without negative consequences), two of them flew to the Russian Federation.
The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Air Force and the Defense Forces of Ukraine.