On Friday, Ukraine’s Air Force reported that it intercepted 27 of 44 Shahed-131 and Shahed-136 drones launched by Russia overnight. Additionally, eight drones vanished from radar, and another headed toward a Russia-controlled area in the Donetsk region.
As of Friday morning, several drones remained in Ukrainian airspace.
Russia also launched Kh-59 guided missiles and Kh-31P anti-radiation missiles at Ukraine, according to Xinhua news agency.
An attack in the town of Pavlograd in the central Dnipropetrovsk region resulted in one fatality and 30 injuries, regional governor Sergii Lysak reported.
The Kyiv Regional Military Administration confirmed that Kyiv’s air defences were activated, but no casualties or damage to critical infrastructure occurred. In Kharkiv’s northeastern region, a missile attack damaged residential buildings and injured three people in Liubotyn on Friday morning, the governor disclosed.
Lysak added that the Air Force downed five drones and one missile over the region. Various overnight assaults in the central region injured two people, damaged over a dozen homes and affected power lines and gas pipelines.
In Lviv, drone debris ignited four trucks in an industrial zone. The governor noted that 32 firefighters extinguished the fire by Friday morning, with no injuries reported. In the southern region of Mykolaiv, another fire caused by falling debris was extinguished after the Air Force downed seven drones, according to the region’s governor.
