On the night of December 21, the Russians launched 35 Shahed drones over Ukraine. Air defense forces shot down 34 drones. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The drones were launched from Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Kursk of the Russian Federation, as well as from Cape Chauda in the temporarily occupied Crimea. Tactical aviation, anti-aircraft missile units, and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Air Force and Defense Forces were involved in repelling the air attack.
Air defense was operating in Kyiv, Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, Poltava, Chernihiv, and Kirovohrad regions.
