🛡️ Defense
Ukrainian air defenses shot down 43 Russian Shahed drones across multiple oblasts, with another 15 decoys drifting off course.
Ukraine
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Kyiv Post UNIAN
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Ukrainian Air Force (military_unit) Shahed drones (weapon_system) Poltava (location) Sumy (location) Kharkiv (location) Cherkasy (location) Chernihiv (location) Kyiv (location) Zhytomyr (location) Dnipropetrovsk (location) Mykolaiv (location) Ukrainian Air Force (military_unit) Shahed-type drones (weapon_system) drone imitators (weapon_system) Iskander-M ballistic missile (weapon_system) Ukrainian Air Forces (military_unit)
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Kyiv Post →
Source tone: certain
Ukrainian Air Force reported downing 43 drones
Kyiv Post →
Source tone: certain
15 decoys drifted off course
UNIAN →
Source tone: certain
Ukrainian Air Forces shot down 93 Shahed-type drones, 47 drone imitators, and one ballistic missile across 12 oblasts, with local losses reported.
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Extracted: 2026-02-16T21:57:12.189Z
Source story: 45666