Ukrainian air defense managed to intercept all 27 Shahed drones launched in the Russian overnight attack, Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk reported on Aug. 9.
The drones were launched from Russia's Primorsko-Akhtarsk.
Ukrainian Defense Forces mobile fire units, anti-aircraft missile units, and electronic warfare (EW) systems of the Air Force shot down Russian drones over Kyiv, Poltava, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts.
An air raid alert was issued in eastern Ukraine in the evening of Aug. 8 due to the drone attack threat.
Explosions were reported in Kharkiv.