Air Defense downs 12 missiles and 31 Shahed in Ukraine’s sky overnight
Overnight into May 26, the russian occupiers launched a missile-air strike against Ukraine using 14 air-launched missiles and more than three dozen attack UAVs. Ukrainian Air Defense Forces worked in nine regions.
So, for the attack, the occupiers used:
- 2 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles launched from MiG-31K aircraft (launched from the airspace of the Tambov Region, RF);
- 12 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles from Tu-95 MS strategic aircraft (launch area of the Saratov Oblast, RF);
- 31 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs (launches - Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Yeisk, RF, and Cape Chauda, Crimea).
As a result of anti-aircraft combat, anti-aircraft missile units, fighter aircraft, EW means of the Air Force, and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine downed:
- 12 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles;
- 31 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs.
Air targets were destroyed in the Mykolayiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi, Kirovohrad, Vinnytsia, and Chernihiv Regions.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, Poland is considering the possibility of shooting down missiles of the aggressor state of russia near its borders, but no decisions have been made in this regard.