During the night attack on Ukraine on Tuesday, September 26, Russians launched 38 kamikaze drones. Air defense forces managed to shoot down 26 of them. This was reported by the Air Force of Ukraine.

Thus, on the night of September 26, the Russian invaders attacked with Shahed-type strike UAVs. The launch of 38 Shahed-136/131 attack UAVs from the southeast (Primorsko-Akhtarsk - Russia, Cape Chauda - Crimea) was recorded.

"Air defense forces and means of the Air Force, in cooperation with units of other components of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, destroyed 26 Shahed-136/131 strike UAVs," the statement said.

Fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units, and mobile fire groups were operating along the route of the attack drones. Over the past and current days, the tactical aviation of the Air Force has carried out more than forty sorties, twenty of them were to engage the enemy.