On the night of February 21, Russia launched 160 drones at Ukraine and also attacked the Odesa region with ballistic missiles.
This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Russians launched 160 Shahed drones and decoy UAVs from five directions—Orel, Bryansk, Kursk, Millerovo, and Shatalovo. Additionally, the Russian forces struck the Odessa region with two Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles fired from Crimea.
The attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and Ukraine’s Defense Forces.
Air defense forces destroyed 87 drones, while 70 decoy UAVs were lost from radar without causing harm. Air defense operations took place in the Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Mykolaiv, Kherson, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
According to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the attack affected the Odessa, Kyiv, Poltava, and Kharkiv regions.
