The Armed Forces of Ukraine report that on the night and morning of July 31, the Russian occupiers launched one of their most massive drone attacks on Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war. The enemy attacked Ukraine with a Kh-59 guided air missile from the airspace over the occupied Kherson region and 89 of Russia’s new type of attack UAV, the Shahed-131/136, launched from the regions of Yeysk, Seshcha, Kursk, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk.
Overnight, Ukraine’s air defenses shot down all 89 drones aimed at Kyiv and the region. It marks the largest attack on the capital so far this year, and the seventh time Russia has targeted Kyiv this month. Kyiv officials said the “massive” attack lasted more than seven hours and involved two waves of drones, adding that “not a single drone reached its target.”
Russia used a significant number of so-called distracting drones, that are designed to probe air defenses rather than destroy targets, in its mass attack, said Andriy Yusov, Ukraine’s military intelligence spokesperson.