Air Force: Ukraine downs 10 out of 10 Russian drones launched overnight
Ukrainian air defense units shot down 10 out of 10 Shahed attack drones launched by Russian forces overnight, the Air Force reported the morning of Feb. 28.
The Russian military launched 10 drones from the coastal city of Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia. The Air Force also reported that Russian troops fired S-300 anti-aircraft missiles from occupied Donetsk Oblast.
Mobile firing groups from Ukraine's Southern Defense Forces and the Air Force's anti-aircraft missile units successfully destroyed all 10 drones in Odesa and Mykolaiv oblasts.
Earlier in the night, the Southern Defense Forces reported that debris from an intercepted drone caused a fire at an infrastructure facility in Odesa.
The fire was extinguished, and no casualties were reported.
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