Russia attacked Ukraine with 25 drones simultaneously, 22 were shot down by the air defense system

Ukraine’s air force said early Sunday that it had destroyed 22 Russian drones in an overnight raid on the southern Odessa region. Ukraine’s air force wrote on Telegram that Russia carried out several attacks by ‘Shahid-136/131’ (unmanned aerial vehicles) from the south and southeast. It added that a total of 25 Iranian-made attack drones were launched and 22 of them were destroyed by the Air Force in cooperation with the air defense of other components of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.

After the failure of a UN-brokered deal allowing safe shipments from the Black Sea in July, Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukraine’s southern Odessa and Mykolaiv regions, where there are ports and infrastructure needed for grain shipments. are important for Last month, the first civilian cargo ship to sail through the Black Sea from Ukraine arrived in Istanbul in defiance of the Russian blockade. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that two more ships had passed through the country’s temporary Black Sea grain corridor.