In eight regions of Ukraine, air defense successfully repelled attacks from Russian drones.

On the night of Sunday, January 26, Russian military forces attacked Ukraine with 72 drones. This was reported by the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

«On the night of January 26, the enemy attacked with 72 strike drones of the Shahed type and imitator drones of various types from the directions of: Orel, Kursk, Bryansk, Millerovo, Primorsk-Akhtarsk», the report states.

The air assault was repelled in Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Khmelnytskyi regions. A total of 50 drones were successfully eliminated. Additionally, 9 enemy imitator drones were lost in specific locations.

In Kharkiv, as a result of the night drone strike around 04:43 in the Osnovyansky district, windows and roofs of 12 private houses were damaged.

It is worth noting that on the night of Saturday, January 25, Ukrainian air defense shot down two guided air-to-surface missiles X-59/69 and 46 drones. That night, the Russian army attacked the Kyiv region with drones, causing damage to a nine-story residential building in one of the settlements.