Russia attacked Ukraine with 227 attack drones in the night to Friday; according to the Ukrainian Air Force, 196 of them had been shot down or suppressed by 8:00. As the Air Force reported on Telegram, among the drones deployed since the evening of 5 November were 86 of the jet-powered Shahed type as well as “Gerbera” and decoy drones of the “Parodiya” type, as the news outlet pravda.com.ua reports. About 15 combat drones were still in the air, and the combat operation continued.
The Air Force reported hits at 14 locations as well as the crash of intercepted drones and their debris at eight further sites. According to the news outlet kp.ua, the drones came from Oryol, Kursk, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Donetsk, Gvardeyskoye and from the Chauda spit in Crimea. According to the Air Force, the attack was repelled by aircraft, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare and drone systems units as well as mobile fire groups.
In Rivne region in western Ukraine, according to the authorities, a man was killed in Sarny district; a house and a lorry were damaged, as Hromadske reports. In Kamianske in Dnipropetrovsk region, an attack damaged a sports complex and started a fire, as the region’s governor, Oleksandr Hanzha, reported. A 60-year-old woman suffered an acute stress reaction. In the Olexandrivka community in Kirovohrad region, according to governor Andrii Raikovych, three people were injured on the evening of 5 November. Energy facilities in the region were also attacked at night and in the morning.
In Derhachi in Kharkiv region, two police officers were injured on the evening of 5 November when a Russian jet drone hit a facility they had visited to warn staff of a possible attack; their service vehicle was also damaged, as the regional police reported.
