The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation attacked the "Shahheda" six areas: the air defense has destroyed all air purposes - Oleshchuk

Mobile fire groups worked in Kherson, Mykolaiv, Khmelnitsky, Poltava, Cherkasy and Dnipropetrovsk regions, said the commander of the Air Force Mykola Oleshchuk. On the night of April 16, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation attacked the peaceful cities of Ukraine with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles of the ShahED-131/136. This was reported by the Commander of the Air Force, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk in his Telegram.

"On the night of April 16, 2024, the enemy attacked 9 Shahd-131/136 UAVs from Cape Chaud (Crimea)," Mykola Oleshchuk said. According to him, mobile fire groups and defense forces destroyed all nine drones in Kherson, Mykolaiv, Khmelnitsky, Poltava, Cherkasy and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration Vitaliy Kim reported that on the territory of the region on the night of the region on April 16, one drone of Shahd 131/136 was destroyed.

"On the night of April 16, one Shahd 131/136 UAV was destroyed in the Nikolaev area in Mykolaiv region," Kim said. The head of the Dnipropetrovsk Ova Sergei Lisak said that on the evening of April 15, the fighters with the East PEC destroyed Russian UAVs of the Shahd type in the Kryvyi Rih district. It was without the dead and the victims. At the time of the publication, the Ova did not comment on the work of air defense in Kherson, Khmelnitsky, Poltava, Cherkasy and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

We will remind, on April 15 in the media reported that the Russian Federation could change the tactics of blows on the power system of Ukraine. In particular, after the enemy's offensive was restored on the front, it struck high intensity in energy infrastructure. On the same day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba stated that negotiations are currently underway to cover the Western regions of Ukraine in Poland.