Russia’s Shahed UAVs attack on 19 December was the largest

Russia deployed the largest number of Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drones during their attack on the territory of Ukraine on 19 December.

Source: Yurii Ihnat, Spokesperson for Air Force of Ukraine, during a briefing in Ukraine-Ukrinform media centre on 20 December

Quote: "Yesterday was St Nicholas Day. The Russians greeted us with one of the largest Shahed attacks. I mean by number. Because 35 attack UAVs were launched on the territory of Ukraine. If we take into account the statistics, then such a number of Shaheds [in one attack] they haven't deployed yet.

After a long pause... since 7 December, we have 67 downed UAVs of this type. These are only downed, obviously not everything can be shot down."

Details: Ukraine’s Air Force states that in total in November and December, Russia used 127 Shahed drones and 300 cruise missiles.

Since the beginning of Russia's use of Iranian kamikaze drones [13 September – ed.], air defence has shot down approximately 430 such UAVs.

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