The Defense Forces shot down 24 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs during a nighttime Russian drone and missile attack across 9 regions.
This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On the night of August 3, the Russian forces launched an attack with two S-300 surface-to-air guided missiles from the occupied territory of Donetsk, two Kh-31P anti-radiation missiles from the airspace over the Black Sea, and 29 Shahed attack UAVs from the directions of Cape Chauda in Crimea, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and Kursk in Russia.
The air attack was countered by mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, anti-aircraft missile troops, and electronic warfare units of the Air Force.
As a result of the air defense battle, 24 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs were shot down within the Kherson, Odessa, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, and Zhytomyr regions.
