Ukrainian Media and activists from different parts of the country are reporting on the Russian-organized “Shahed-136” suicide drone attack on Wednesday evening. Drones called “flying mopeds” can be heard roaring in the sky, air defenses are working and explosions are heard, according to media reports.
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The drone news comes from the Dnipropetrovsk region, where the moment of destruction of a “Shahed-136” was recorded on video.
Vitaly Kim, head of the Mykolaiv district administration, also reports on the drones, adding that many of them have already been shot down. On the other hand, an air warning has been announced in the Cherkasy region, reports the BBC.
The Ukrainian “East” command reports that five drones were shot down over the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Journalist Andriy Caplienko writes that the drones are flying in four groups, the first of which flew towards the Mykolaiv region, and the others towards the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
It was also reported that several groups of “mopeds” are flying in the direction of the Kharkiv and Poltava regions, writes the UNIAN agency.
Since the autumn, Russia has regularly carried out massive missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure. The previous time was on December 19, when Iranian-made drones were launched against Kiev. Out of 23 drones, 18 were shot down.
About the Iranian-supplied Shahed-136 drones, why they are called “flying mopeds” and how they work, you can read it here.
of Russia The full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in the early morning of February 24, with rockets, air strikes and the arrival of ground forces. As one of the targets of the invasion Russia originally mentioned Ukrainian “denazification”.
The occupiers in Ukraine have suffered heavy casualties and are accused of the deliberate killing of civilians, as well as other war crimes. The atrocities of the occupiers began to come to light en masse after the Ukrainians drove them out of the suburbs of Kiev, such as Bucha.
of Russia treatment of Ukrainians, including killing and setting up infiltration camps, characterized by this “manifesto of fascism”published by the Kremlin’s propaganda news agency “RIA Novosti”.
In general, the war in Ukraine has been going on since 2014, when Russia occupied the Crimean peninsula and started a war Ukrainian East.
