On the night of 28 September, Ukrainian air defenses shot down two Russian missiles (Kh-59/Kh-69) and 69 Shahed drones.
“Of the drones, 69 were downed, one returned towards Russia, and three lost tracking over Ukraine,” the Ukrainian Air Force’s statement reads.
In total, Russia launched 77 weapons:
- Two Iskander-M ballistic missiles from occupied Crimea,
- Two Kh-59/Kh-69 guided missiles from occupied Zaporizhzhia airspace,
- 73 Shahed drones from Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Orel (Russia), and Cape Chauda (Crimea).
The two Iskander missiles hit unspecified targets.
Air defenses were active in Kyiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Rivne, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, and Mykolaiv oblasts.
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