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Russia launches 'record' 75 drones on Ukraine as the country marks Holodomor Day

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenska (C-L) paid tribute to the victims of the famine of 1932-1933 at the National Museum of the Holodomor in Kyiv, Ukrainian, on 25 November 2023. © AFP - HANDOUT

Ukraine has said on Saturday it had downed 74 out of 75 Russian attack drones overnight, in what Kyiv said was the biggest drone attack since the start of the invasion.

The Ukrainian army said Russia had launched a "record number" of Iranian-made Shahed drones, the majority of which were downed over the capital, Kyiv, causing power cuts in the centre of the city as temperatures dipped below freezing.

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