Air Force names number of missiles and drones it shot down during massive attack
For a massive attack on the night of August 26, the occupiers used 127 missiles and 109 attack UAVs. A total of 102 missiles and 99 attack UAVs were shot down.
It was reported by the Air Force.
It is noted that the occupiers launched a massive combined attack on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine, in particular on the fuel and energy sector of the state, using various types of air-, land- and sea-based missiles.
What the occupiers launched
- 3 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles from the airspace of the Ryazan and Lipetsk Oblasts - russian federation;
- 6 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles from the Kursk, Voronezh Oblasts - russian federation, and from Crimea;
- 77 Kh-101 cruise missiles from Tu-95MS aircraft from the airspace of the Volgograd Oblast and the area of the Caspian Sea;
- 28 Kalibr cruise missiles from surface/underwater carriers in the eastern part of the Black Sea;
- 3 Kh-22 cruise missiles from the airspace of the Voronezh Oblast - russian federation.;
- 10 Kh-59/Kh-69 guided air missiles from Su-57, Su-34 aircraft from the airspace of the Belgorod Oblast, and from the Mariupol district;
- 109 Shahed-131/136 strike UAVs - launch areas Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk, Yeysk - russian federation, Chauda - Crimea.
What was shot down
- 1 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile;
- 1 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missile;
- 1 Kh-22 cruise missile;
- 99 Kh-101, Kalibr cruise missiles, Kh-59/69 guided air missiles;
- 99 Shahed-131/136 strike UAVs.
In addition, several units of UAVs were lost in location on the territory of Ukraine, two more crossed the state border with Belarus.
Recall that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the russian attack on Ukraine on August 26 a combined attack and one of the largest, aimed at critical civilian infrastructure.