On its X account (formerly Twitter), the Ukrainian army claims to have destroyed 28 Russian shader drones on the night of Wednesday to Thursday. “The enemy attacked Ukraine with ‘Shahed’ attack drones from the north and south,” particularly from the Russian border region of Belgorod and from Cape Chauda in the east of the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014. A total of 33 drone launches were sighted and in “at least six regions The country’s air defense forces have been mobilized, she said.
In addition, an attack damaged Moscow’s port warehouse in the southern region of Odessa, according to the Armed Forces of Southern Ukraine, suggesting that “the enemy’s night attack, which mobilized a group of attack drones in our area of responsibility, was again aimed at infrastructure of the Danube port. “Warehouse buildings in the southern port area of the Odessa region were damaged by a strike,” the same source added on Telegram.
Local governor Oleg Kiper reported damage to “port infrastructure and residential buildings” in Izmail district, as well as an octogenarian hospitalized with burns. According to the army, Ukrainian forces destroyed 10 Russian vehicles in this region and four more in the neighboring Mykolaiv region. She did not specify whether these 14 aircraft were among the 28 aircraft shot down and counted by the Luftwaffe.