Russia launches 100+ drones at Ukraine overnight — Air Force
Air defense units eliminated 76 enemy targets overnight on Jan. 23 (Photo: Markiyan Lyseyko / Ukraine's State Border Guards Service via Facebook)
Russia launched 101 attack drones at Ukraine, including Shahed-type UAVs — some of them jet-powered — as well as Gerbera drones and others; 76 enemy targets were eliminated, Air Force reported on Jan. 23.
Russian forces launched the drones from Kursk, Oryol, Shatalovo, Millerovo, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia, as well as from temporarily occupied Donetsk.
Approximately 60 of the UAVs were of Shahed type.
The Russian air attack was repelled by Ukrainian aviation, surface-to-air missile units, electronic warfare and unmanned systems units, and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces.
As of the morning update, Ukrainian air defenses shot down or suppressed 76 drones. Nineteen attack UAVs hit targets at 12 locations.
Ukrainian military officials warned that the attack was still ongoing, with several hostile drones remaining in Ukrainian airspace.
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