Humenyuk warned that Russia was preparing a new mass shelling of Ukraine

The Russian army tried to identify and evade the Ukrainian air defence during a night attack on 30 March. This may indicate that the Russians are preparing new massive strikes on the territory of our country. About this on air telethon spokesman of the Defence forces of the south Natalia Humenyuk.

The very fact that the enemy tried again to direct the routes of their drones in such a way as to both expose and bypass air defence systems may indirectly indicate that even such a not very powerful, compared to others, attack may be a precursor to the next attacks, when the enemy will collect certain information, - she said.

Gumenyuk added that the enemy has intensified the activities of unmanned reconnaissance drones.

We will remind, Russia on the night of 30 March released 12 strike UAV "Shahed-136/131" on Ukraine. The air defence forces destroyed nine enemy drones. Units of mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defence Forces within Kherson, Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions were involved in repelling the attack.

Also on the night of 30 March 2024, the enemy struck the territory of Donetsk region with four S-300/S-400 anti-aircraft guided missiles.