MOSCOW (dpa-AFX) - Ukraine's military claims to have shot down 13 'kamikaze' drones over the southern Mykolaiv region overnight.
'During the night of October 18-19, the enemy attacked the Mykolaiv region twice with 'Shahed-136' kamikaze drones,' the Ukrainian Armed Forces said a statement on Telegram Wednesday. 'Eleven were shot down by the air defense of air command 'South', two more - by soldiers of the National Guard of Ukraine and the State Border Service of Ukraine,' it added.
Russian forces have been launching drones and missiles on civilian and energy infrastructure targets across Ukraine since October 7, killing dozens and leading to power and water shortages. Hundreds of towns and villages in the country are in blackout as a result.
1,162 settlements in the Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, and Mykolaiv regions remain without power supply,' says Oleksandr Khorunzhyi, a spokesperson for the country's State Emergency Service.
More than 70 people were killed and many others injured in the attacks, according to him.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said that one third of the nation's power stations were destroyed in Russian attacks. Power and water supply is partially disrupted in capital Kyiv after fresh strikes on Tuesday.
Zelensky said the drones are Iranian-made. Iran denied supplying Russia with the small aerial weapons, which are destroyed after hitting the target.
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