Russia attacked Ukraine with 71 UAVs: which regions were affected?.

On the night of November 2, Russia attacked Ukraine with a guided aerial missile Kh-31P and 71 strike UAVs. As a result, apartment buildings and private houses were damaged in Sumy, Poltava, Kyiv, and Odesa regions. This is reported by the Air Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

«On the night of November 2, 2024, the enemy launched an attack with a guided aerial missile Kh-31P from the airspace of Belgorod region and 71 strike UAVs of the “Shahed” type and UAVs of an undetermined type from the directions of Orel, Kursk – RF», – the statement says.

Downing of enemy UAVs

As of 11:00, the downing of 39 enemy UAVs in the Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Sumy, and Poltava regions has been confirmed. 21 UAVs are lost by location, five UAVs returned to Russia.

According to preliminary data, as a result of the Russian attack, due to falling debris, apartment buildings and private houses in the Sumy, Poltava, Kyiv, and Odesa regions were damaged.

Recall, in Kyiv, as a result of the fall of UAV debris, a building was damaged, a fire broke out. Later it became known that the fire was extinguished. Rescuers evacuated 18 residents of the house, one person was injured. On-site still, 9 units of equipment and 40 personnel of the State Emergency Service are working.

Injured as a result of UAV attack

Consequences of the fall of Russian UAV debris in the Shevchenkivskyi district of the capital pic.twitter.com/PTKpha9Est

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Also, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that there are two injured in the Sviatoshynskyi district in a residential building where a fire broke out as a result of debris hitting a UAV.  

Moreover, as a result of the drone attack by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on Kyiv, the fall of debris has already been recorded in six districts of the capital – in Solomianskyi, Svyatoshynskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Holosiivskyi, Pecherskyi, and Dniprovskyi.

By the way, in Kharkiv, emergency rescue operations and the clearing of debris as a result of the Russian attack on November 1, have been completed. As a result, one person died, and 46 were injured.