Overview
- Ukraine's Air Force reported a new mass attack of 236 loitering munitions overnight and said air defenses shot down or jammed 203 of them.
- Officials said 32 drones struck 18 locations and debris from downed UAVs fell at eight sites, with the operation still ongoing at the time of reporting.
- More than half of the attacking craft were Shahed models, which are launched to loiter over an area and then crash into a target once one is found.
- Ukraine said it used aircraft, surface-to-air missile units, electronic warfare teams, unmanned systems, and mobile fire groups to repel the wave.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces earlier destroyed 46 Ukrainian fixed‑wing drones over several regions and the Black Sea in an eight‑hour span on April 18.