56 drones and 2 missiles shot down over Ukraine during a night attack by Russia
Kyiv • UNN
At night, Russia attacked Ukraine with 122 drones, including Shahed, S-300 and X-59/69 missiles. Air defense forces destroyed 56 drones and 2 missiles.
Russia attacked Ukraine at night with 122 drones, S-300 missiles and five X-59/69 missiles, destroying 56 drones and 2 missiles in 14 regions, another 6 drones left Ukrainian airspace: five to Russia and one to Belarus, the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported on Wednesday, UNN writes.
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According to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the night of November 20 (from 19.30 on November 19), the enemy struck Kharkiv region with an S-300 anti-aircraft guided missile from Belgorod region, and 5 X-59/69 guided missiles in Dnipropetrovs'k, Chernihiv and Sumy regions. The occupiers also attacked with guided aerial bombs and launched 122 Shahed attack UAVs and unidentified drones from the Kursk, Orel, Primorsko-Akhtarsk areas of the Russian Federation.
The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Air Force and Defense Forces.
As of 11:00 a.m., two X-59/69 guided missiles and 56 enemy UAVs were confirmed downed in Kyiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytsky, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Donetsk and Kharkiv regions. As a result of active countermeasures, 58 enemy UAVs were lost in different regions. Six UAVs left Ukrainian airspace: five to Russia and one to Belarus
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