X-59/69 missile, Forpost and 11 UAVs shot down in the sky over Ukraine - Air Force

X-59/69 missile, Forpost and 11 UAVs shot down in the sky over Ukraine - Air Force

Kyiv  •  UNN

July 27 2024, 06:43 AM  •  23428 views

Ukraine's air defense forces destroyed an X-59/69 missile and 4 'Shahideen' on the night of July 27. During the day, another 8 air targets were shot down, including Forpost and Lancets in the south and northeast.

On the night of  July 27, air defense forces shot down an enemy X-59/X-69 missile and four Shahideen in Dnipropetrovs'k, Poltava, Kharkiv, and Kyiv regions. In total, air defense destroyed eight more air targets yesterday and today. This was reported on Saturday by the commander of the Air Force, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, according to UNN

Details 

According to Oleshchuk, on the night of July 27, the enemy attacked with an X-59/X-69 guided missile from the airspace of the TOT in Zaporizhzhia region and four Shahed strike UAVs from Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia.

“All the targets were shot down by the forces and means of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in Dnipropetrovs'k, Poltava, Kharkiv and Kyiv regions,” Oleshchuk wrote. 

In addition, over the past and current days, air defense destroyed eight more air targets in the southern and northeastern directions: 4 Supercam reconnaissance UAVs, 1 Forpost strike and reconnaissance UAV, 1  UAV (type to be determined), 2 Lancet barrage munitions.

Image