Shelling of Kirovohrad region by Shahed drones: an infrastructure object was hit

On the night of February 2, Russian troops attacked the Kirovohrad region with Shahed-136/131 drones.

Local residents heard loud explosions in the regional center at approximately three in the morning.

Updated at 08:10.

What is known about drone attacks

At four o’clock in the morning on February 2, the head of the regional military administration, Andriy Raikovych, announced that during a massive drone attack on Kirovohrad region and neighboring regions in Kropyvnytskyi and Kropyvnytskyi districts, air defenses worked.

Subsequently, the head of the joint coordination press center of the Southern Defense Forces, Natalia Gumenyuk, in a comment to Vikna-novyny host Yana Brenzei during the nationwide telethon broadcast, reported that air defense forces had destroyed three drones in the region.

However, unfortunately, it was not possible to avoid hitting the infrastructure object.

The fire that broke out has already been contained.

According to preliminary information, there were no casualties.

Details of the drone attack today

On the night of February 2, Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with 24 Shahed-136/131 attack drones.

Enemy drones were flying from Primorsko-Akhtarsk, in the Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation, and from Cape Chauda, in the still-occupied Crimea.

Air defense forces destroyed 11 Shaheds in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Kirovohrad and Kharkiv regions.

At least seven attack drones missed their targets and were lost to location.

The full-scale war in Ukraine has been going on for the 709th day.

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Source: Andriy Raikovych , Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine