On the night of today, December 19 (from 20.00 on December 18), the Russian invaders carried out another massive air attack on Ukraine.
This was reported by the press service of the Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The enemy attacked Ukraine:
- two Iskander-M ballistic missiles from the occupied Crimea and the Rostov region;
- guided aircraft missile X-59/69 from the airspace of the Kursk region;
- 85 attack UAVs of the Shahed type and other types of drones from the areas of Bryansk, Kursk, Millerovo and Orel.
The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Air Force and the Defense Forces of Ukraine, the Air Force said.
As of 08.30:
- the beating of 45 attack UAVs of the Shahed type and drones of other types was confirmed in the Poltava, Sumy, Kharkov, Kyiv, Khmelnitsky, Chernihiv, Cherkassy, Kirovograd, Dnepropetrovsk and Nikolaev regions;
- as a result of active opposition from the Defense Forces, 40 enemy simulator drones were lost in location (without negative consequences).
As a result of the missile strike, private, apartment buildings and municipal property in the Sumy and Dnepropetrovsk regions were damaged.
Source: Racurs
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