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Ukraine air defense downs 9 Russian drones

by Reuters

   Ukrainian air defense and mobile drone hunters groups shot down nine
   out of 13 Russian drones over four regions of the country, the air
   force said Saturday.

   The Iranian-made Shahed drones were downed over the central Poltava
   region, southeastern Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions, and the
   Kharkiv region in the northeast, the statement said. One X-59 Russian
   missile launched from Russia's Kursk region was also downed.

   Serhiy Lysak, Dnipropetrovsk regional governor, said the overnight
   drone attack damaged commercial and residential buildings and also a
   power line. Details of the damage in other regions were not immediately
   clear.

   Meanwhile, Russian air defense units destroyed three Ukrainian drones
   on Saturday in Russia's town of Mozdok in the Republic of North Ossetia
   Alania, regional head Sergey Meniaylo said.

   It was the first drone attack on the region, Russian news agencies
   reported.

   Meniaylo, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said that the attack
   had caused "minor damage and fires," and that no one was injured.

   The drone was aimed to attack a military airfield, Meniaylo said.

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