"In the night, the 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 direction of the southern Mykolaiv region, then to 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, Mykolaiv, Khmelnytsky, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.
Ukrainian anti-aircraft fire destroyed 16 of the 18 Shahed drones launched by the Russian army
, reports the Kiev Air Force, cited by Ukrainska Pravda.
The drones were launched from Primorsko-Akhtarsk in the Russian Federation and from Cape Chauda in Crimea.
The Russian army attacked ten settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region
in south-eastern Ukraine 263 times in 24 hours, one civilian was killed and two others wounded, governor Ivan Fedorov reported on Telegram.
Ukrinform reports it.
"On February 24, an enemy grenade caused the death of a 61-year-old in Huliaypole. Two people were injured," Fedorov said.
Russian troops hit Robotyne, Vilnyansk, Huliaypole, Novoandriivka, Novodanylivka, Malynivka, Mala Tokmachka with 60 drones and 14 MLRS.
Over the past week, the Russian army has attacked 3,200 towns and villages in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Two apartment buildings, private homes and educational institutions were damaged by Russian shelling yesterday in the Kherson region of
southern Ukraine, where one civilian was killed and six others injured.
Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported this on Facebook, quoted by Ukrinform.
Kremlin army missiles targeted Bilozerka, Shliakhove, Novoberyslav, Havrylivka, Sadove, Stanislav, Osokorivka and the city of Kherson.
"The Russian army struck residential areas, in particular two residential buildings and seven private houses were damaged. One person was killed and 6 others were injured," he said.
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