Russia attacks a bridge in Zatoka in Odesa region with missiles, shooting down 17 drones

Russia attacks a bridge in Zatoka in Odesa region with missiles, shooting down 17 drones

Kyiv  •  UNN

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Russia attacked the bridge in Zatoka, Odesa region, with Iskander and X-59/69 missiles. In total, the enemy launched 53 air targets, including 43 Shahed drones, of which 17 were shot down.

In the skies over Ukraine, air defense forces shot down 17 of 43 enemy drones launched by the Russian army since the evening of October 30. Russian troops attacked with two Iskandermas and 8 X-59/69 missiles, two of which were shot down. This was reported on Thursday by the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, UNN reports

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Reportedly, on the night of October 31 (from 18.30 on October 30), the enemy attacked the bridge across the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi estuary in Zatoka, Odesa region. Two Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles were fired from Crimea and eight X-59/69 guided missiles were launched from tactical aircraft over the Black Sea.

The occupiers also fired two Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles from Rostov region at Kramatorsk.

From the directions of Kursk and Orel, the enemy attacked with 43 Shahed attack UAVs and unidentified drones.

  The air defense system operated in Odesa, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Donetsk, and Poltava regions.

In addition to two downed X-59/69 guided missiles in Odesa region in the evening, as of 08:00, 17 enemy UAVs were confirmed downed. 23 drones were locally lost, three more Russian UAVs left the controlled airspace in the direction of Russia and the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine

- the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement. 

On October 30, it was reported that Russian terrorists launched a massive rocket attack on Odesa region