Ukrainian air defense shoots down all nine Shahed UAVs

This was reported by the the Ukrainian Air Force.

"From 6:00 p.m. on December 22 to midnight on December 23, 2023, the occupying Russian forces attacked Ukraine with Shahed-type attack UAVs from the areas of Balaklava - Crimea, Primorsko-Akhtarsk of the Russian Federation," the statement says.

The Ukrainian Air Force destroyed all nine Shahed drones in the Odesa and Khmelnytskyi regions.

• On the evening of December 22, Russia launched Shahed drones from the southern and northern directions.