The Ukrainian ministry of defence has claimed it shot down 39 Iranian-made Shahed drones, as well as a cruise missile, last night.

Earlier we reported that Ukraine’s regional military command in the country’s east said air defence systems destroyed nine Iranian-made Shahed drones over the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions by the early hours of Monday, Qazet.az reports.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, added that “45 ‘Shaheds’ were shot down on the first night of the year” in his Monday evening address.