Ukraine and Russia exchange massive drone attacks – Diario La Página –

Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses intercepted this Sunday (11/24/2024) more than a dozen drones launched over the city of kyiv by the Russian invaders, who also attacked other areas of the country during the night. In total, Moscow troops launched fifty Iranian-made Shahed unmanned vehicles and several other types.

«Last night, the Russian Armed Forces again attacked the capital of Ukraine with unmanned aerial vehicles. The air alert in the city lasted more than 3 hours,” the head of the kyiv Regional Military Administration, Sergui Popko, wrote on Telegram. The official assured that the air defense forces detected and neutralized “more than a dozen drones that threatened the capital.”

Thanks to this, no damage was caused and no casualties were reported. However, there were also attacks in the Cherkassy, ​​Kirovograd, Chernihiv, Sumi, Poltava and Zhitomir regions. In total, Ukraine’s anti-aircraft defenses shot down 50 Iranian Shahed drones and other types of unmanned aerial vehicles launched from Russia overnight, as reported in the same application by the country’s Air Force.

Radar destroyed in Kursk
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian General Staff claimed responsibility for the destruction of a radar station of an S-400 anti-aircraft missile system in the Russian region of Kursk, partially occupied by Ukrainian troops since last August. According to the Ukrainian military leadership, this unit of the Russian Armed Forces carried out combat operations in the “ground-to-ground” mode, that is, it hit fixed targets located on the ground.

“These bombings by the Russian invaders are mainly directed against civilian targets and against the civilian population in the frontline regions of Ukraine,” added the Ukrainian General Staff.

For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that 36 Ukrainian drones were intercepted in five regions of the country. Of these, 27 drones and two missiles were shot down over the territory of the Kursk region. Additionally, four other drones were shot down over Lipetsk; three over Belgorod and one in Briansk and Orlov, a region located 300 kilometers from Moscow.