Russian army attempted, with the help of the Black Sea tactical aviation, to destroy our anti-aircraft defense using Kh-31P missiles, which were shot down over the sea. Then followed waves of drones initially in the direction of the southern region of Mykolaiv, then on the central and western regions.

This was reported by the head of the press center of the Southern Forces of the Ukrainian army, Colonel Nataliya Humenyuk, quoted by the media. Ukrainian anti- aircraft went into action in the Poltava, Kiev, Khmelnytsky, Mykolasiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia.