Ukrainian air force shot down all five missiles and 48 out of 53 drones over nine regions during Russia’s overnight attack, Ukrainian military said on Friday.
Both Russians and Ukrainians have learnt from the experiences of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict in 2020 and have built up on it with their own about use of drones during the current conflict. It can be quite confidently stated that Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict was the first in which unmanned systems proved decisive. The drones caused a lot of Armenian tank casualties, and helped swing the weight in the Azerbaijan military’s favour.
On Friday, the Russian forces attacked Kyiv region with drones and Kh-101/Kh-555 missiles, causing a fire at one of the industrial facilities, according to the governor. Emergency services worked to put out the fire on Friday morning with no casualties reported.
Kharkiv region Governor Oleh Syniehubov said the drone attack knocked out windows in at least three residential buildings, damaging a store and a post office, among other local infrastructure.
Three drones were destroyed over Dnipropetrovsk region, the governor said. Kirovohrad governor said the attack caused no damage in his region after military reported shooting down one drone. Khmelnytskyi governor also reported no damage, saying the air force shot down 11 targets over his region.
Ukrainian military said seven drones were shot down over the southern Odesa region with three more downed in Kherson region and two more in Mykolaiv region.
The attack did not damage any energy infrastructure, Ukraine’s Deputy Energy Minister Mykola Kolisnyk said on national television.
Russia has increasingly targeted Ukrainian energy infrastructure this spring which dealt damage to Ukrainian power generation capacity, causing power outages across the country. However, the warmer weather now reduces the discomfort that drops in power generation lead to, last winter.
Team BharatShakti
(With inputs from Reuters)
