The Russian military used the same number of drones on New Year’s Eve, January 1, 2024.
During the night, air defense forces destroyed 89 Shahed-type attack UAVs and an X-59 guided missile. This was announced by the commander of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Nikolai Oleshchuk on Telegram on Wednesday, July 31.
“On the night of July 31, the enemy attacked with a guided missile X-59 from the airspace of the occupied Kherson region and 89 attacks by UAVs of the Shahed type from the areas of Yeisk, Seshcha , Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk The direction of the attack is the Kiev region,” he said.
According to Oleschuk, this was one of the strongest attacks by suicide bombers. The Russians used the same number of drones on New Year’s Eve, January 1, 2024. Just like then, today the air defense survived and repelled a massive attack by enemy drones.
Of the 89 attack drones detected by Air Force radar units, all 89 shot down the X-59 guided aircraft missile, with which the enemy attacked the Nikolaev region, was also shot down.
Mobile fire groups of all Ukrainian defense forces, tactical aviation of the Air Force and army aviation of the Ground Forces, anti-aircraft missile units and electronic warfare of the Air Force were involved in repelling the air attack.
We remind you that at night the Russian troops carried out one of the most powerful attacks of UAV strikes in the entire war. The main target of the Russians is Kyiv. The air raid warning in the capital lasted more than seven hours.
It was reported that in the airspace of Kyiv and on the approaches, the air defense forces shot down more than 40 enemy drones.
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Source: korrespondent
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