Ukrainian forces shoot down 71 Russian Shahed UAVs overnight

Ukrainian air defence units shot down 71 Russian Shahed loitering munitions on the night of 21-22 September. Six more disappeared from radar, likely due to electronic warfare activity. Source: Ukraine's Air Force

Details: The Ukrainian military noted that the Russians had fired two Kh-59/69 air-to-surface missiles from the airspace of the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk Oblast and launched 80 Shahed-type loitering munitions from the Russian cities of Yeysk and Kursk.

Ukrainian air defence units were responding in Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Sumy, Poltava, Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts.

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