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Air defense downs 14 Russian drones overnight

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Air defense downs 14 Russian drones overnight
Fragments of the Iranian drone Shahed-136 (Russia named Geran 2), displayed in Kyiv on Aug. 24, 2023. (Illustrative purposes only) (Aleksandr Gusev/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Ukraine's air defense forces downed 14 Russian drones overnight on Dec. 15, the Air Force said on Telegram. The drones were launched from Primorsko-Akhtarsk in southern Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

All the drones were intercepted over Mykolaiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, and Poltava oblasts.

Ukraine's Air Force warned about threat of drone attacks for Cherkasy, Kirovohrad and Vinnytsia oblasts early on Dec. 15. Air defense was active in Khmelnytskyi and numerous explosions were reported in the city of Kharkiv.

On Dec. 14, Ukraine's air defense units shot down 41 out of 42 Russian drones. Russia launched a total of 42 Shahed drones at Ukraine, beginning on the evening of Dec. 13. The drones were launched from Balaklava and Chauda in occupied Crimea and from Primorsko-Akhtarsk.

Ukrainian authorities have warned that Russian aerial assaults are expected to escalate during the winter, with Moscow focusing on Ukraine's energy infrastructure and other civilian sites.

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Olena Goncharova is the Head of North America desk at The Kyiv Independent, where she has previously worked as a development manager and Canadian correspondent. She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper’s Canadian correspondent in June 2018. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master’s degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months. The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

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