Ukraine and Russia launch overnight drone attacks amid missile strike tensions

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Posted on 11/24/2024 6:39:23 AM PST by marcusmaximus

Ukraine's air force said that at least 73 Russian attack drones entered the country's airspace on Saturday into Sunday morning, after a week in which both sides made battlefield history with new advanced weapons systems.

Ukraine's air force said it downed 50 of the 73 Russian drones that crossed into the country. Another 19 drones were lost in flight, while four more were still flying in Ukrainian airspace as of just after 7 a.m. local time.

Russia's Defense Ministry reported downing 36 Ukrainian drones overnight Saturday and early Sunday.

The ministry said its own strikes were part of a wider campaign of attacks on "military airfields, production facilities and storage sites for drones, as well as concentrations of enemy manpower and military equipment."

Drone exchanges have been a constant element of Russia's full-scale invasion of its neighbor, with the size and regularity increasing as the war wears on. Russia also often combines its UAV barrages with missile strikes.

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Yehor Cherniev -- a member of the Ukrainian parliament and the chairman of his country's delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly -- told ABC News that Kyiv would not be cowed by Russian threats.

"Ukraine has every right to use the entire arsenal of available conventional weapons to the full depth of the aggressor's territory," he said, shortly after the ATACMS strike in Bryansk.

"We will continue to strike military targets on the territory of the Russian Federation until the threat to Ukraine is eliminated," Cherniev said.

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