On Thursday, the Ukrainian military asserted that more than 30 Russian unmanned aerial vehicles had been destroyed and that Russia had launched a “massive” drone attack overnight.
UAVs were caught over Black Sea coastal regions as well as farther inland, according to Nataliya Gumenyuk, a spokeswoman for the Ukrainian southern military command.
Gumenyuk stated on the messaging app Telegram that Russia “does not stop the pressure and searching for new tactics: namely, with the use of mass attacks.”
“Tonight, several groups of strike UAVs were launched… air defence worked along almost the entire southern direction — in Odesa, Mykolaiv regions. Also, much higher north — the enemy aimed its attacks on central Ukraine,” she said.
“The consequences of the attack are being clarified now, because it was indeed a massive one.
“However, the air defence work was quite effective. Over 30 UAVs were destroyed.”
Russia has increased attacks on Ukraine’s grain-exporting infrastructure in the southern Odesa and Mykolaiv areas since July, when Moscow dropped out of a UN-mediated agreement permitting secure grain shipments over the Black Sea.
