On the night of January 1, 2023, the Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with Iranian drones.

Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed 45 enemy drones.

This is reported by the official Telegram channel of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

"On the night of December 31, 2022, against January 1, 2023, the Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with Iranian-made Shahed-131/136 kamikaze drones. As a result of combat work by the air defense of the Air Force in cooperation with the air defense of other components of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, 45 attack UAVs were destroyed" , the message says.

The Anti-Aircraft Forces specified that 13 were shot down in 2022 and 32 in 2023.

"It was not possible to spoil the holiday for Ukrainians!" - emphasized the department.

Attack of Ukraine by kamikaze drones on New Year's Eve

We will remind that on the night of January 1 in Ukraine, immediately after the New Year's chimes, an air alarm sounded.

Russia decided to "congratulate" Ukrainians with an attack by Iranian kamikaze drones.

In Kyiv, explosions rang out at night, air defense operations were reported, and an air raid alert sounded for almost three hours.

According to the KMVA, on New Year's Eve, January 1, 

23 air targets were shot down over the capital

.

In the Shevchenkiv district of the capital  ,

a fragment of a rocket fell on a car

, and fragments were also recorded on a sports ground where children play.

The Russians left a cynical inscription "Happy New Year" on the drone used by the enemy to attack Kyiv. 

As Oleksiy Kuleba, the head of the Kyiv OVA, clarified, almost

30 enemy drones

were launched in the region at night , there is damage to the infrastructure object.

Previously, there were no casualties.

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