The enemy sent UAV groups from the south to the central and western regions of the country in two waves.
The Russian invaders continue their systemic drone terror and launched another batch of “flying killers” on the night of April 18th.
According to the Defense Forces of southern Ukraine, this night the aggressor sent groups of attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type from the south to the central and western regions of the country in two waves with an interval of three hours.
“In the operational zone of the Southern Defense Forces, it was possible to effectively work out two loitering shells, one of which was in transit through the Kherson region, and the other was hunting the infrastructure of Krivoy Rog in the Dnepropetrovsk region. There were no hits or damage,” the report says.
Also yesterday, the enemy continued its insidious tactics of targeted missile strikes, including the use of ballistics. In the morning, the Odessa region was attacked – the infrastructure of the region was again under attack. There were no reports of casualties.
Updated 10:00. According to the commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Nikolai Oleshchuk, on the night of April 18, 2024, the enemy attacked with 13 attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type from the regions of Primorsko-Akhtarsk (Russian Federation) and Cape Chauda (from the occupied Crimea) .
“All 13 suicide bombers were shot down by anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the Kherson, Dnepropetrovsk, Vinnytsia, Poltava, Khmelnitsky, Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk regions,” Oleshchuk emphasized.
Attack on Ukraine on the night of April 16, 2024 – latest news
On the night of April 16, Russian invaders launched a kamikaze drone attack on Ukraine. In the south, four enemy “Shaheds” were destroyed – two in the Kherson region, one each in the Nikolaev region and Dnepropetrovsk region.
According to the press center of the Southern Defense Forces, the situation remains tense – the enemy does not stop terror on land, where he cannot achieve the successes he planned. He compensates for this in the air, in particular, continues ballistic strikes on different regions of Ukraine, and tries to put pressure using Shahed-type drones.
