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AFU have already “landed” 223 Iranian kamikaze drones
Oct 19, 2022
The Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down 223 Shahed-136 drones within 36 days.
The Air Forces of the AFU reported this in Telegram.
“As of October 19, since the first case of shooting down an Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drone on the territory of Ukraine (September 13, Kupiansk, Kharkiv region – ed.), the air defense of the Air Forces and other departments of the Defense Forces of Ukraine have destroyed 223 UAVs of this type,” the statement says.
Anti-aircraft missile units, fighter aircraft, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, mobile firing groups of MANPADS, anti-aircraft guns, large-caliber machine guns and other weapons are involved in the destruction of Shahed-136 loitering munitions, which the invaders mark as “Geran-2”.
It was also reported that Ukrainian Air defense destroys about 85 percent of Shahed-136 drones launched by Russia for strikes on Ukrainian territory.
Author – Anastasiya Glotova, 19/10/2022
