On the night of today, July 18, Russian invaders carried out another air attack on Ukraine using kamikaze drones and missiles.
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This was reported on the Facebook page of the Ukrainian Air Force Command.
The enemy used the following for the attack:
- 16 attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type from the Kursk region of the Russian Federation;
- three guided air missiles from the south – two Kh-59/Kh-69 and one Kh-35.
In total, the radio-technical troops detected and tracked 19 air targets; mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force, and electronic warfare units were involved in repelling the air attack, the report says.
The defenders of the sky managed to hit all 16 Shaheeds and two Kh-59 missiles in the Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Zaporizhia, Kyiv and Kharkov regions.
Most of the targets were destroyed in the eastern direction – in the area of responsibility of the East Air Command, the Air Force Command notes.
Source: Racurs
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