According to Ukrinform, the Ukrainian Air Force reported this on Telegram.

Starting at 6:00 p.m. on July 24, Russian forces launched an attack using two Kh-59/69 precision-guided (launched from airspace over the Black Sea) and 157 Shahed-type combat UAVs (including jet-powered ones), Gerbera, Italmas, Banderol loitering munitions, and Parodiya-type decoy drones from the following directions: Orel, Kursk, Bryansk, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk (Russian Federation), the temporarily occupied city of Donetsk, as well as Hvardiiske and Chauda (Crimea).

The air attack was repelled by the Ukrainian Air Force, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare and unmanned systems units, and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.

According to preliminary data, as of 7:30 a.m. on July 25, Air Defense Forces shot down or neutralized one Kh-59/69 missile and 127 drones in northern, southern, eastern, and central Ukraine.

Twenty-six combat UAVs hit nine locations, and debris was found at four locations. The Kh-59 missile did not reach its target.

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The attack is ongoing, and enemy drones remain in the airspace.

As reported by Ukrinform, 10 people were preliminarily reported killed as a result of a Russian missile strike on the Kyiv region. It was reported that approximately another hundred people sustained injuries of varying severity.