The shelling of Ukraine on April 8: the Russian Federation attacked the rocket and "Shahheda", "arrivals" (photo) recorded

More than half of the drones and the enemy's airline were successfully destroyed by the forces and means of Ukrainian air defense. This is stated in the message of the Commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykola Oleshchuk. According to the military command, the defense forces managed to knock down 17 shock UAVs. According to the Air Force, the X-59 rocket was launched by the Russians from the airspace of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region.

The shock drones were launched by the enemy from different places: Cape Chauda in the occupied Crimea, as well as districts of Russian cities Kursk and Yeysk. "Fighter aviation, anti -aircraft missile units, mobile fire groups and radio electronic warfare were involved in the reflection of the air attack," Oleshchuk said.

As a result of air -to -air battles, the Ukrainian defense forces were destroyed: as the head of the Odessa Regional Military Administration Oleg Kiper reported, four enemy drones were destroyed in the region at night. In the Odessa district there was an encroachment - there was damaged a logistics transport object. In addition, the fragments of one of the UAVs damaged the gas station. It was without the victims.

In addition, according to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Ova Sergei Lisak, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation attacked the Nikopol region 8 times last night. The enemy used artillery as well as drones-Kamikadze. No one was injured during a hostile attack. "The explosions were heard in Nikopol and the Manganese community. A utility company, a private house, a car were damaged," Lisak said.

In the Nikolaev area, as reported by Ova Vitaliy Kim, April 8, during the fighting of air defense forces, fragments of a whipped unmanned unmanned vehicle type Shahd-131/136 damaged power lines, which led to shutdown of electricity in 14 settlements and partially in one. Electricity restoration works are currently being carried out. There are no victims. We will remind, on April 7 in his daily address President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the country lacks air defense.