MELITOPOL, October 21. /TASS/. Communications specialists and assault troops of the 58th Guards Army of Battlegroup Dnepr repelled a massive attack by Ukrainian armed forces incendiary drones targeting a communications repeater on the Zaporozhye axis, with six enemy unmanned aerial vehicles destroyed during the attack, a serviceman from the 42nd Motor Rifle Division with the call sign Tridtsaty told TASS.
"One of my fighters [on the Zaporozhye axis] was guarding the site where the repeater is located. Together with an assault company that was also stationed nearby, they repelled the [Ukrainian armed forces’] drone attack on our repeater. Six drones were destroyed that day, and all of them were incendiary. The equipment survived," Tridtsaty said.
The serviceman specified that communications specialists shot down three drones and assault troops shot down the other three.