Air defense forces shoot down 4 missiles and 37 Shaheds during night
On the night of Wednesday, November 13, russian troops launched 6 missiles of various types, 90 attack drones and guided aerial bombs on the territory of Ukraine, the air defense forces managed to shoot down 2 Kh-101 cruise missiles, 2 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles and 37 drones.
The Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced this on the Telegram channel, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
It is noted that on the night of November 13 (from 3 p.m. on November 12), the enemy attacked Ukraine with various types of missiles, guided aerial bombs and attack drones.
A total of 96 means of air attack were detected by the radio-technical troops of the Air Force (not including guided aerial bombs):
- 2 S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the Kursk Oblast of the russian federation in the Sumy Region;
- 2 Kh-101 cruise missiles from Tu-95MS strategic bombers (launch area - Caspian Sea);
- 2 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles (launch area - Voronezh Oblast of the russian federation);
- 90 attack UAVs of the Shahed type and unmanned aerial vehicles of an unspecified type from the Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Oryol areas (all - russian federation).
"As of 10:00 a.m., two Kh-101 cruise missiles, two Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles and 37 enemy UAVs were downed in the Kyiv, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Cherkasy, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv and Kirovohrad Regions. 47 enemy drones were lost in different regions of Ukraine, two UAVs left the airspace of Ukraine in the direction of Belarus and Russia," the message reads.
Two more drones are still in the airspace of Ukraine, combat work continues.
The air attack was repulsed by anti-aircraft missile troops, aviation, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Air Forces and Defense Forces of Ukraine.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on the night of November 12, the russians launched 110 drones and 3 missiles over the territory of Ukraine, and the air defense forces destroyed 46 unmanned aerial vehicles.