Ukrainian Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk said this in a post on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.
"On the night of June 7, the enemy attacked Ukraine's critical infrastructure with Tu-95MS strategic bombers from the airspace of the Saratov region and Shahed-131/136 UAVs from the area of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Yeisk and Kursk, Russia, and Cape Chauda, Crimea," he said.
In total, the enemy used five Kh-101/Kh-555 air-launched cruise missiles and 53 Shahed-131/136 drones in the attack.
Mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units and electronic warfare units of the Ukrainian Air Force were involved in repelling the aerial attack.
Ukraine's air defenders shot down 48 attack UAVs and five Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles in the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Odesa, Kharkiv, Kyiv and Khmelnytskyi regions.
