Russia attacked Ukraine with 160 drones: how air defense performed
On the night of October 10, Russian troops attacked Ukraine with 160 strike and decoy UAVs of various types. Among them were 110 jet-powered Shahed drones.
This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Russia launched drones from the territory of Oryol, Kursk, and other oblasts of the Russian Federation, as well as from the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk Oblast and Crimea. Among the air attack weapons used were Shaheds, Gerbera, and Parodiya decoy drones.
Aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare and unmanned systems units, as well as mobile firing groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, were involved in repelling the attack.
According to preliminary data, as of 09:00, air defense forces shot down or suppressed 117 enemy drones. Among them were 82 jet-powered Shaheds.
At the same time, hits were recorded at 14 locations. Shot-down drones or their fragments fell at 10 other locations.
Recall that on the morning of October 10, Russian troops struck a five-story residential building in Zaporizhzhia. People were killed and injured as a result of the attack.
On the same morning, explosions rang out in Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk during a Russian drone attack. Air defense forces operated in the cities.
