On the night of January 8, 2025 (from 7:30 PM on January 7), the Russian forces attacked with 64 strike UAVs of the Shahed type and various types of imitator drones from the directions of Oryol, Kursk, Bryansk, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk (Russia).
The airstrike was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Air Force, and the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
As of 9:00 AM, it was confirmed that 41 strike UAVs of the Shahed type and other types of drones were downed in the Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and Kirovohrad regions.
22 Russian imitator drones were lost (without negative consequences), three of which flew towards Russia, and one towards Belarus.
