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Six Iranian-made Russian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones were shot down over Ukrainian airspace over the night of June 27, Ukraine's Air Force reported on June 28.
According to the report, the drones attacked Ukraine from the southeast direction, but no further information on their targets was given.
Russia has used the cheap Iranian drones to probe and waste Ukraine's precious air defense reserves since October last year.
Kyiv’s frustration boils as flow of Western chips for Russian missiles continues uninterrupted
Destroyed apartments, burnt-out cars, lives upturned or extinguished altogether: Russia’s June 13 missile attack on the city of Kryvyi Rih was, in many ways, nothing out of the ordinary for wartime Ukraine. The evening after the attack, which killed 13 civilians, President Volodymyr Zelensky came o…


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