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Ukrainian air defence units shoot down 35 Russian Shahed UAVs overnight

Sunday, 21 July 2024, 08:23
Ukrainian air defence units shoot down 35 Russian Shahed UAVs overnight
Thirty-five Shahed loitering munitions have been destroyed. Photo: Ukraine's Air Force

Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 3 Iskander-M ballistic missiles, 2 Kh-59 guided missiles and 39 Shahed loitering munitions, 35 of which were shot down, on the night of 20-21 July 2024.

Source: Ukraine's Air Force

Details: In addition to the destroyed UAVs, the Kh-59/69 missiles did not reach their targets due to active electronic warfare countermeasures.

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The Russians are known to have fired missiles from Russia’s Kursk Oblast and occupied Crimea.

The Shaheds attacked Ukraine from three areas: the Russian cities of Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and occupied Crimea.

During the nighttime attack, Radio-Technical and Special Troops of Ukraine's Air Force detected and monitored aerial targets in over 10 Ukrainian oblasts.

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Air defence systems responded to the Russian attack in Sumy, Poltava, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Cherkasy oblasts.

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