Ukraine's air defence downed 11 drones and two missiles during Russian night attack

Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Serhii Palya

On the night of Feb 27, the Russians attacked Ukraine with six missiles and 13 Shahed drones. Air defence forces destroyed two missiles and 11 drones.

The Air Force announced the details of the Russian night attack on Ukraine

It notes that air defence destroyed 2 Kh-59 guided air missiles and 11 "Shaheds" in the Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Khmelnytskyi and Kirovohrad regions.

Also, the Air Force reported that the occupiers launched an Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missile from the Voronezh region, 4 Kh-59 guided air missiles and 1 Kh-31P anti-radar missile from the TOT of the Kherson and Donetsk regions.

"Shaheds" that night were launched from the territories of Russia - from the Primorsky-Akhtarsk and Kursk regions.

What is known about the Russian attack on Ukraine on the night of February 27

The Air Force command of the Air Force announced at night about the enemy "Shaheds" near the border with Moldova, and some monitoring groups reported that they even flew into the territory of this country. However, later in the night, the Ministry of Defence of Moldova issued a statement in which they emphasised that no drone had penetrated into their country's airspace.

Also, the Moldovan MOD added that the Ukrainian side confirmed to them that all the Shaheds launched over the Odesa region "were destroyed or silenced by Ukrainian air defence."

Moreover, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk RMA, Serhii Lysak, reported that a Russian drone was downed over the region and later added that the Air Defence Force downed two cruise missiles in the Kryvyi Rih district.

Let's add that later the Air Force reported on groups of enemy combat drones maneuvering in the regions, and also announced the threat of Russian missile strikes using ballistics. In addition, about the threat of air strikes.

After two in the morning, explosions were reported in Poltava, but later, the head of the Poltava RMA, Philip Pronin, said that no hits were recorded in the region, and there were no casualties either.