Russia launched an attack on Ukraine last night, deploying 72 "Shahed" drones across 11 regions.

On the night of January 2, the enemy deployed 72 strike drones of the "Shahed" type and other types of UAVs from directions such as Bryansk, Oryol, Kursk, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, as reported by the Ukrainian Air Force.

"As of 08:30, the downing of 47 strike UAVs of the 'Shahed' type and drones of other types has been confirmed in the Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions," the Air Force report states.

It is also noted that "due to active countermeasures by the Defense Forces, 24 enemy decoy drones were lost in location (without negative consequences). One UAV remains airborne."

The air assault was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Air Force, and the Ukrainian Defense Forces.

Furthermore, over the past day, missile troops and artillery of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck four areas of personnel and equipment concentration, as well as two air defense systems of the Russian invaders, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Thursday morning.