Ukraine's air force said on Saturday it had repelled a Russian drone attack overnight, shooting down 30 of 31 drones launched by Moscow, AFP reported. The attack targeted regions including the capital Kyiv, the southern Kherson region, as well as the western Khmelnytskyi region. "A total of 31 Shahed attack drones were used in the attack, which the occupiers sent to different regions of Ukraine," the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement.
Kherson was recaptured by Ukrainian forces in November 2022, but has since faced relentless shelling by Russian forces from the opposite bank of the neighboring Dnieper River.
Meanwhile, Russian authorities said one person was killed overnight in Ukrainian bombing in the occupied southern Kherson region. The governor of Russia's Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced that over the past 24 hours there had been 41 Ukrainian strikes on the territory bordering Ukraine. Russia said on Friday it had thwarted a series of Ukrainian drone attacks in two border regions. In a two-hour period, 26 drones were shot down over the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Ukraine in 2014, the defense ministry said in a statement, without specifying whether there were any casualties or damage. The ministry earlier said in Telegram posts that six drones targeting "installations on Russian territory" had been shot down in the Kursk region, again without providing further details.
Drone attacks are almost a daily occurrence in Russia's border regions, although mass attacks are rarer. Meanwhile, Russia is bombing Ukrainian cities almost daily. This week it launched a massive drone strike against southern Ukraine and fired ballistic missiles at Kiev. /BGNES
