In February 2022, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, creating destruction with its daily shelling of cities and villages.
Amid the ongoing war, Russia has launched roughly 2,000 drone strikes on Ukraine in October, a record-high for the year, according to Ukrainian officials.
Early Friday, Ukraine’s General Staff of the Armed Forces reported via Facebook that Moscow launched 2,023 drone strikes on Kyiv in October—1,185 were destroyed or suppressed by Ukraine, 738 were « locally lost » and 29 flew back out of Ukraine-controlled airspace.
The General Staff did not say what happened to the remaining 71 drones. It did say, however, that since the start of the year, Russia launched 6,987 drone strikes on the Eastern European nation, mostly targeting « civilian and critical infrastructure. »
« Thanks to the professionalism and skill of the soldiers of the Defense Forces from Russian air terror managed to save thousands of lives of our people, protect hundreds of homes of Ukrainian citizens and important objects of the state from destruction », the General Staff wrote.
Ukraine’s ministry of defense wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday that Russia launched « a record number » of drone strikes into Ukraine.
