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Euromaidanpress
Euromaidan Press
25 Sep 2024
Maria Tril


Air defense forces shot down 28 Shahed and 4 missiles at night

The Air Force said the drones were launched from Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Kursk, Russia. 
Ukraine's Air Defense.
Ukraine’s Air Defense. Credit: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Air defense forces shot down 28 Shahed and 4 missiles at night

Ukrainian air defense forces successfully intercepted and destroyed 28 Shahed attack drones and four missiles during a nighttime assault by Russian forces on 25 September 25, according to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Air Force reported that Russian forces launched a total of “eight missiles of various types and 32 Shahed-type strike UAVs” against Ukraine. In addition to the drones and missiles shot down, “four more Russian drones were lost locationally in several oblasts of Ukraine,” the report said.

The attack targeted multiple oblasts across Ukraine. The Russians attacked the Kharkiv Oblast with an S-300 surface-to-air guided missile and three missiles of an unidentified type, the military reported. They also struck at the Odesa Oblast with four Kh-59/69 guided air-to-surface missiles from the airspace over the Black Sea.

The Air Force said the drones were launched from Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Kursk, Russia.

The air defense systems were active in multiple oblasts, including Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Poltava, Mykolaiv, Odesa, and Kherson.

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