Russia launched a drone attack on Ukraine during the night of October 17, with five confirmed hits, according to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The occupiers launched 56 strike drones and unmanned aerial vehicles of an unidentified type, with the launch areas being Kursk, Oryol, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk. Additionally, the enemy attacked with a guided Kh-59 air-to-surface missile from the airspace of the Kursk region. Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed 22 enemy drones. The air defense system was active in the regions of Sumy, Kyiv, Poltava, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Mykolayiv, Cherk…