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Early on March 10, dozens of suicide drones, allegedly launched from Russia, attacked Ukrainian targets in Odessa and several other regions held by the Kiev regime.
In a statement, the Ukrainian Air Force (UAF) said that at least 39 Shahed-type suicide drones were launched by the Russian military from the area of Cape Chauda in the Crimean Peninsula, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Krasnodar Krai region.
The air force alleged that 35 of the 39 drones were intercepted over the regions of Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Odessa, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Kiev and Zhytomyr. However, video footage posted to social media showed blasts in Odessa and several other regions.
Russian forces also launched four S-300 anti-aircraft missiles at ground targets, according to the UAF, which didn’t report any successful interception.
Ukraine claims that the Russian military uses Iranian-made Shahed-131 and 136 suicide drones, but Moscow says that it uses similar homegrown drone dubbed the Geran- and /2. The Kiev regime has been also claiming that Russia is using S-300 missiles in ground strikes since the start of the special military operation. However, there is still no evidence backing this claim.
The large-scald drone attack on Ukraine came just a day after some 50 suicide drones launched by Kiev forces targeted four different regions in Russia. All the drones were intercepted by Russian air defenses.
The Kiev regime sees attacks on Russian territory, which usually target civilian properties and infrastructure, as a way to make up for its repeated failures on the battlefield. The Russian military always responds to these attacks with drone and missile strikes.
