Russian forces attacked Ukraine at night with Shahed drones and S-300 missiles. Air Defense Forces destroyed all attack drones, according to Telegram channels of Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk and head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration Filip Pronin.
"On the night of April 9, 2024, Russian occupiers attacked with 20 Shahed-131/136 attack drones from Cape Chauda (Crimea), Primorsko-Ohtarsk (Russia), as well as with four guided S-300 surface-to-air missiles from the occupied Donetsk region," the commander reported.
As a result of the air battle, all 20 Shahed drones were shot down in the Mykolaiv, Odesa, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Vinnytsia, and Lviv regions.
According to the head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration, Filip Pronin, two drones were shot down in the Poltava region.
"Within the Poltava community, our mobile fire groups worked on two drones. Fortunately, there were no casualties," Pronin reported.