Ukrainian defenders shot down 53 drones at night

Ukrainian defenders shot down 53 drones at night. Photo from pixabay

As of the morning of Saturday, November 16, the Defense Forces shot down 53 attack drones out of 83 launched.

This is reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

«On the night of November 16, the enemy attacked Kharkiv Oblast with an anti-aircraft guided missile S-300, attacked 83 attack UAVs of the Shahed type and unmanned aerial vehicles of an unspecified type from the regions of Kursk, Orel, Primorsko-Akhtarsk — RF,» the message reads.

It is noted that it was possible to shoot down 53 enemy UAVs in Cherkasy, Odesa, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and Khmelnytskyi regions.

At the same time, 30 enemy UAVs were lost in various regions of Ukraine.

We will remind that the Russian troops attacked Zaporizhzhia with Shahed drones. A critical infrastructure object was damaged.