Russian forces launch five missiles and 13 kamikaze drones into Ukraine

On the night of April 5, Russian invaders launched an attack on Ukraine using five missiles and 13 Shahed kamikaze drones. All UAVs were all successfully shot down. Explosions were reported in the Odesa region.

The Air Force of Ukraine's armed forces reported this on Telegram.

"As a result of anti-aircraft combat, mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine shot down all 13 Shahed in the Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, and Dnipropetrovsk regions," the report said.

The defenders clarified that:

the Russian troops from the Belgorod region fired two S-300/S-400 anti-aircraft guided missiles and three "Iskander-M" ballistic missiles;

drones attacked from Cape Chauda, which is in temporarily occupied Crimea.

^{Photo: Telegram / Air Force}

Late on the night of April 4–5, Russian soldiers launched an attack on Ukrainian territory using drones and missiles. News of a series of explosions in Kharkiv broke out.

Later, the Air Force of Ukraine's armed forces warned about the threat of kamikaze drones in the southern regions.

At 00:22, it was announced that there was an attack UAV heading towards Nikopol.

At 00:28, the military detected a group of attack UAVs in the Dnipropetrovsk region. They were moving in a northeastern direction.

At 00:37, the movement of the UAV was recorded heading for Zaporizhzhia.

At 00:41, the invaders launched another group of attack UAVs from the Kherson region to the Dnipropetrovsk region in the northern direction.

At 00.53, the Air Force has announced new movement routes of strike UAVs:

• The initial squadron of unmanned aerial vehicles was moving  eastward in the northern area of Zaporizhzhia.
• Meanwhile, a second squadron was heading northeast in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

At 2:18, an air threat was repelled.

On Friday night, the military recorded a group of attack UAVs flying from the Black Sea toward Odesa (Bay). A ballistic hazard was announced in several regions.

At 3:26, the Air Force announced the presence of the Shahed UAV group from the Black Sea side.

Later, it was clarified that the drones were situated in the Belhorod-Dniester district of the Odesa region. The direction was towards the north.

Suspilne reports about the explosions in Odesa.

The Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv regions were warned of the potential threat of ballistic weapons.

Later, an air raid alert was announced in the Poltava region.

At 4:24 a.m., the military declared they had successfully repelled the threat.

For reference:

The Russians launched 14 strategic aviation cruise missiles, an Iskander ballistic missile, and another Kh–59 over Ukraine on the evening of March 31. As a result, nine Kh-101/Kh-555 missiles and nine Shahed drones were shot down by air defense forces.

Only in March of this year, the Russian invaders used more than 400 missiles of various types, more than 600 Shahed attack drones, and more than 3,000 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine.

However, the Russian Federation may repeat massive shelling of Ukraine. The invaders have taken a break and are probably stockpiling resources for attacks.