Russian forces launched an overnight attack on Ukraine with 105 kamikaze drones on the night of October 3, 78 of which were shot down by air defense systems, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. "On the night of October 3,

Ukraine’s Air Force reported that Russia launched 105 Shahed-type drones across Ukraine overnight. Seventy-eight were shot down across 15 oblasts, while 23 were lost to electronic warfare, and one flew toward Belarus,

Ukrainian air defenses destroyed 78 of 105 Russian drones, Ukraine’s air force said. Intercepts took place over the Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Vinnytsia, and Zhytomyr regions.

KYIV : Russia launched several waves of drone attacks targeting Kyiv early today, with air defence units engaged in repelling the strikes for several hours, Ukraine’s military said. Reuters’ witnesses heard numerous blasts in Kyiv in what sounded like air defence systems in operation and saw objects being hit in the air.

Ukraine's air defence has been responding to Russian drones in Kyiv Oblast on the night of 27-28. Source: Kyiv Oblast Military Administration; Kyiv City Military Administration Quote: "Enemy UAVs were detected in the airspace.