Russia launches record number of drones at Ukraine overnight

The Air Force of Ukraine reported this development.

The Russian aerial assault lasted from 8:00 p.m. on November 9 through the morning of November 10, marking the highest number of UAVs deployed in a single attack.

During the assault, Ukraine's radar forces identified and tracked 145 UAVs, including Shahed drones and unmanned aircraft of unknown types. These were launched from Russia’s Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Oryol, Bryansk regions, and from Cape Chauda in occupied Crimea.

By 9:30 a.m., Ukraine’s anti-aircraft missile units, aviation, electronic warfare teams, and mobile defense groups had downed 62 Russian drones over Odesa, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Donetsk regions.

Additionally, 67 Russian drones went off radar in various regions, while 10 left Ukrainian airspace toward Moldova, Belarus, and Russia.

• On November 9 and overnight into November 10, Russian forces deployed attack drones across Ukraine. The strikes left people injured in Odesa and damaged infrastructure in multiple regions.