Ukraine’s military said Thursday it shot down 66 of 78 Russian drones launched in overnight attacks, along with all four guided missiles fired by Russian forces.
The intercepts took place over the Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Sumy and Vinnytsia regions, the military said.
Officials in Kyiv said Thursday that Ukrainian air defenses shot down about a dozen Russian drones overnight, with falling debris causing a fire at a residential building and damaging a gas pipeline.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday it shot down four Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod region, two drones over the Kursk region and another drone over Bryansk.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, the regional governor of Belgorod, said one person was killed in a drone attack that struck a car.
Some information for this story came from The Associated Press and Reuters.
