During the night, air defense forces shot down nine ballistic and 13 cruise missiles, as well as 20 drones.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported this on the morning of September 2.
In total, the Russian army launched 58 aerial targets – 35 missiles of various types and 23 attack UAVs.
In addition, as a result of active counteraction by the Ukrainian Defense Forces, one Kh-101 cruise missile and three attack UAVs did not reach their targets and were lost in location. The information is being clarified, they added.
Combat operations were carried out in the Kyiv, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Nikolaev and Zaporizhia regions.
The Air Force’s radio-technical troops detected 58 air targets – 35 missiles of various types and 23 attack UAVs:
- 16 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles from the Bryansk, Voronezh and Kursk regions of Russia;
- 14 X-101 cruise missiles from Tu-95MS aircraft from the airspace of the Volgograd region of the Russian Federation;
- four S-300/S-400 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the Belgorod region of Russia;
- a missile of an unspecified type from the Belgorod region of Russia;
- 23 attack UAVs “Shahed-131/136” from Primorsko-Akhtarsk RF.
Source: Racurs
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