Occupiers attacked Ukraine again at night: air defense forces shot down 60 air targets

Occupiers attacked Ukraine again at night: air defense forces shot down 60 air targets

On the night of September 5, the Russian occupation army launched 78 Shahed-type attack drones and an Iskander-M ballistic missile against Ukraine. 60 drones were shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces.

This was reported on Facebook by the Ukrainian Air Force. It is noted that two drones returned to the Russian Federation, one to Belarus. 15 were lost on Ukrainian territory, probably under the influence of electronic warfare. There was no information about damage or casualties.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces also clarified that the ballistic missile was flying from temporarily occupied Crimea, and the UAV was flying from Kursk, Yeysk, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk.

Air defense operated in the Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovograd, Vinnytsia, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson, Poltava, Chernihiv, Zhitomir, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions.

The head of the Cherkasy OVA, Igor Taburets, reported on Telegram that the air defense forces destroyed 7 enemy UAVs in the skies over their region. There was no information about casualties or damage.