Ukrainian air defense shoots down 41 Shahed drones at night

On the night of December 14, Russia launched 42 Shahed attack UAVs against Ukraine, but the Ukrainian Air Defense Forces destroyed 41 drones

The Ukrainian Air Force reported this.

In addition, the Russian army fired 6 S-300 missiles from the temporarily occupied Kherson region in the direction of Mykolaiv and Kherson regions.

"The Russian enemy began attacking with Shahed-136/131 strike UAVs at 7:00 p.m. on December 13. The launches were carried out in waves from three directions: Balaklava, Chauda - Crimea and Primorsko-Akhtarsk - Russia. In total, 42 attack UAVs were launched," the statement says. 

The main direction of the strike was the Odesa region, where the vast majority of UAVs were shot down.

• On the evening of December 13, Russian forces launched Shaheds and rockets from the south. In the Odesa region, 11 people were injured.