On January 30, the Defense Forces destroyed a Shahed-136 drone over Mykolaiv region. As the wreckage fell, a truck carrying sunflower seeds caught fire. The driver suffered a head injury.
Ukrainian Defense Forces shoot down 15 of the 35 Shahed drones that Russia launched overnight across Ukraine.
Media reports that Shahed-136 received a new version of the Russian-made warhead.
Russia equips its Orlan-10 drones with foreign-made trackers.
On the night of Monday, 29 January, Russian drones flew towards Ukraine's western border. The Ukrainian armed forces shot down all eight drones over the Mykolaiv, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia and Khmelnytskyi regions.
Four Russian Shahid-136/131 drones were shot down over Mykolaiv region on Monday night, the head of the Mykolaiv regional defense administration said. The wreckage of some of the downed drones damaged buildings in the Arbuzyn community, but there were no casualties.
Overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force shot down eight Russian Shahid drones that were used to attack several regions of Ukraine. Russia also fired one Iskander missile and S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems from the occupied territories, but these attacks were repelled by Ukrainian forces.
