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Air defence, aviation shoot down 12 of 13 Russian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones overnight

Russians attacked Ukraine from the east.

Air defence, aviation shoot down 12 of 13 Russian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones overnight
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On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, 2 November, Russians attacked Ukraine from the east with Shahed-136 kamikaze drones. Almost all of them were shot down by Ukrainian aviation and Air Defence Forces, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

"12 out of 13 loitering munitions were destroyed by air defence in the eastern and central regions of the state," - the statement reads.

The military specified that six drones were shot down by anti-aircraft missile units, aviation and mobile fire groups of the East air command.

Another six - in the area of responsibility of the Centre Air Command, where fighter aircraft, units of anti-aircraft missile troops, as well as mobile firing groups of the Land Forces and the Territorial Defence Forces were involved.

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