⚡️ 50 UAVS AND AVIATION MISSILES WERE BROKEN DOWN
➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖. On the night of August 21, 2024, the Russian occupiers struck Ukraine with two Iskander-M /KN -23 ballistic missiles from the Voronezh region, a Kh-59/Kh-69 guided air missile from the airspace of the Kursk region, and the 69th strike UAVs of the "Shahed" type (launch areas - Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Yeisk, Kursk - Russian Federation).
In total, 72 air targets were detected and escorted by the Air Force's radio-technical wings.
The air attack of the enemy was repulsed by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, radio-electronic warfare units of the Air Force and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
💥 As a result of anti-aircraft combat, 51 aerial targets were shot down: one Kh-59/Kh-69 guided air missile and 50 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs in the Khmelnytskyi, Poltava, Cherkasy, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Mykolaiv regions. , Odesa, Kherson, Donetsk, Kirovohrad, Sumy and Chernihiv regions.
Another 16 enemy UAVs were lost in location - they probably fell under the influence of radio-electronic means of countermeasures. The information is being clarified.
In addition, the crossing of the state border with the Republic of Belarus in the Chernihiv region by an enemy strike drone was recorded, and another Russian UAV returned "to its homeland" - in the Belgorod region.
As of 11:15 a.m., one enemy drone is in the airspace of Cherkasy region. Combat work continues.
Thanks to all the defenders of the sky for the result!
🇺🇦 Together - to victory!
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🦅 Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk
