Three enemy missiles and 25 out of 26 “Shaheds” were destroyed in the sky over Ukraine at night

Three enemy missiles and 25 out of 26 “Shaheds” were destroyed in the sky over Ukraine at night

Kyiv  •  UNN

August 20 2024, 05:25 AM • 20981 views

At night, 28 enemy air targets were shot down over Ukraine: 3 missiles and 25 out of 26 Shahed drones.

Overnight, 28 enemy air targets were shot down in the skies over Ukraine - 3 missiles and 25 of 26 Shahed attack drones, said Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, UNN reports.

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On the night of August 20, according to Oleshchuk, the enemy attacked with two Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles from Voronezh region, an Iskander-K cruise missile from Bryansk region, X-59 guided missiles from the airspace of Kursk and Zaporizhzhia regions, and 26 Shahed attack UAVs (launch areas - Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Yeysk, Kursk - Russian Federation).

28 air targets were shot down: one Iskander-K cruise missile, two X-59 guided missiles and 25 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs in Kyiv, Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Kirovohrad, Sumy and Chernihiv regions

- Oleshchuk wrote on Telegram.

According to him, aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces and electronic warfare units were involved in the air battle.

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