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Ukrainian air defence shoots down all 23 Russian attack UAVs launched at night

The Russians also launched three missiles. 

Ukrainian air defence shoots down all 23 Russian attack UAVs launched at night
Ukrainian air defence shoots down 23 Russian attack UAVs
Photo: Air Force

On the night of 20 February, the Russians fired at Ukraine with two S-300-S-400 guided missiles, an X-31 guided missile and 23 Shahed attack drones. All drones were shot down.

Russians attacked from both its own and occupied territory. The enemy launched the anti-aircraft missiles from Russia's Belgorod Region, the air-to-air missile from Zaporizhzhya Region, and the Shaheds from Russia's Primorsko-Akhtarsk, the Air Force said.

Anti-aircraft missile units, mobile firing groups and electronic warfare units of the Ukrainian Defence Forces were involved in repelling the air attack.

"As a result of combat operations, all 23 Shaheds were shot down within Kharkiv, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson and Mykolayiv Regions," the statement said. 

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