The Ukrainian air defense eliminated 27 Russian Shahed drones in seven regions of Ukraine, the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

"As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, all enemy UAVs were shot down by mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, anti-aircraft missile units and air defense units in Kyiv, Poltava, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions," the message says.

In total, the radio engineering troops of the Air Force identified and escorted 27 attack drones.

As noted, on the night of August 9, the Russian occupiers attacked with shock UAVs of the Shahed type from Primorsko-Akhtarsk area (Russia).