Accessibility links

Breaking News

Ukrainian forces destroy 36 Russian drones


Ukrainian paratroopers of the 80th Separate Galician Air Assault Brigade take a part in the presentation of a 7.5-metre Trident, a Ukrainian national symbol, in Lviv on Dec. 23, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian paratroopers of the 80th Separate Galician Air Assault Brigade take a part in the presentation of a 7.5-metre Trident, a Ukrainian national symbol, in Lviv on Dec. 23, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine’s military said Tuesday it shot down 36 of the 60 drones that Russian forces deployed in overnight attacks.

The intercepts took place in the Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv, Poltava, Sumy and Zaporizhzhia regions, Ukraine’s air force said.

Serhiy Lysak, governor of Dnipropetrovsk, said on Telegram that the drone attacks and Russian shelling damaged several homes and a power line.

In Khmelnytskyi in western Ukraine, Governor Serhii Tiurin reported the Russian attack damaged several homes.

Officials in the Sumy region in northeastern Ukraine said a farm building was damaged there.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday its air defenses destroyed four Ukrainian aerial drones, including three over the Rostov region and one over Voronezh.

Both Rostov and Voronezh are located along the Russia-Ukraine border and are frequent targets of Ukrainian drones.

The governors of Rostov and Voronezh each said on Telegram there were no reports of damage or casualties as a result of the Ukrainian attacks.

  • 16x9 Image

    VOA News

    The Voice of America provides news and information in more than 40 languages to an estimated weekly audience of over 326 million people. Stories with the VOA News byline are the work of multiple VOA journalists and may contain information from wire service reports.

XS
SM
MD
LG