On the night of December 21, 2024 (from 07:00 p.m. on December 20), the enemy launched an S-400 anti-aircraft guided missile from the Donetsk Region TOT in the direction of the Poltava Region (preliminarily without consequences), attacked with 113 Shahed-type strike UAVs and drones of other types from the directions of Bryansk, Millerovo, Oryol, Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Berdiansk.
This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The air attack was repelled by anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Air Force and the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
As of 09:00 a.m., it was confirmed that 57 Shahed attack UAVs and other types of drones were shot down in the Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia Regions.
Due to the active countermeasures of the Defense Forces, 56 enemy simulator drones were lost in location (without negative consequences).
In the Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv Regions, the shot down attack UAVs damaged private and apartment buildings, property and cars of citizens, assistance is being provided to the injured.
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