AFP
Ukraine mentioned on Thursday it downed 17 out of twenty-two Russian drones attacking its territory in a single day, and {that a} little one was killed within the nation’s south by artillery shelling.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s workplace mentioned a six-year-old boy was killed and 4 different individuals, together with his 13-year-old brother, have been wounded by Russian shelling within the village of Novodmytrivka within the Kherson area.
“Enemy shells hit a private house and its territory,” it mentioned in an announcement on Telegram.
Separately, Ukraine’s air power mentioned it had shot down drones in a number of areas in Ukraine’s south and north.
“On the night of September 14, 2023, from 9:00 pm to 2:30 am, the Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with several groups of Shahed-136/131 type (drones) from three directions,” it mentioned in a publish on Telegram.
Dnipropetrovsk area governor Serhiy Lysak mentioned three drones have been over the area, damaging a number of buildings. Another a part of the area was hit in a single day by artillery and rockets, he mentioned.
Having initially sought to pummel Ukrainian targets with missiles, Russia has this 12 months more and more turned to the Shahed, an inexpensive kamikaze drone which is extra expendable and might confuse air defences with its smaller dimension and low pace.
