On the night of March 27-28, Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine with Iranian kamikaze drones.. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine clarified that in total the Russians fired 15 Shahed strike drones. Almost all of them shot down our air defense forces.

“At night, for airstrikes, the enemy deployed 15 attack UAVs of the Shahed-136 type.. 14 of them were destroyed by our defenders. The likelihood of further missile and air strikes remains high throughout Ukraine,” the General Staff noted..

At the same time, according to the head of the Kyiv city military administration, Sergei Popk, in the airspace of the capital, air defense shot down 12 Shahed UAVs.

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According to recent data from Ukrainian intelligence, 200 Shahed-type drones remain in Russia.. We are talking about received from Iran in late 2022 and early 2023. According to the deputy head of the GRU MOU Vadim Skibitsky, enemy air forces receive Shahed from Tehran in batches of 250-300 pieces. However, the GUR predicts that Russia will try to establish its own production.