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Air Force: Ukraine downs 10 drones overnight

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by Olena Goncharova
Air Force: Ukraine downs 10 drones overnight
An aftermath of Russia's drone attack on Kharkiv Oblast overnight on Feb. 9. (Oleh Syniehubov/Telegram)

Ukrainian air defense destroyed 10 of the 16 Shahed-type drones Russia launched from the Cape of Chauda in occupied Crimea and Russia's Kursk region, the Air Force reported on Feb. 9.

From the onset of the full-scale invasion, the Russian military has utilized Crimea and other occupied territories in Ukraine as launch sites for missiles and other weapons targeting Ukraine.

Mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Air Force downed the attack drones over Mykolaiv, Kherson, and Kharkiv oblasts.

After midnight, Russian forces launched several drone strikes on the civilian infrastructure of the Zmiiv community in Kharkiv Oblast, regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said via his official Telegram channel. The drone strike damaged several residential buildings, a three-story building of a recreation center, and a canteen.

First responders put out fires caused by the attack in a hotel building, and a restaurant's summer terrace. One civilian was injured in the attack and was treated by the medics on the spot.

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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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