Ukraine has air defense systems capable of shooting down Iranian Fateh-110 and Zolfagar ballistic missiles with a range of 300 and 600 km, respectively, but needs more of them to counter a large number of missiles.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down all 13 UAVs launched by russian troops during an air battle over three regions on the night of April 5.
Sappers of the State Emergency Service destroyed a FAB-500 bomb found on agricultural land in Donetsk region.
Police explosives experts neutralized almost half a ton of explosives from an unexploded warhead of an Iskander M missile that fell near a village in Shepetivka district of Khmelnytskyi region.
In March 2024, the air defense of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed 326 enemy aerial reconnaissance and attack vehicles, including 151 Shahed-131/136 drones, 45 Zala drones, 13 Supercam drones, 92 Lancet drones, 21 Orlan-10 drones, and 4 drones of unspecified type.
Since the beginning of 2024, Russia has fired more than 180 missiles and drones toward Kyiv, including 5 Zircon hypersonic missiles, 11 Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missiles, and 6 Iskander ballistic missiles.
18 air targets were destroyed in an air battle during the russian attack on Ukraine last night.
The enemy shelled Kherson and Mykolaiv regions with missiles of various types, including ballistic missiles in Kherson and guided missiles in Mykolaiv, damaging infrastructure but causing no casualties.
According to a spokesman for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy is using missiles that it has rarely used before to find weaknesses in our air defense.
84 air targets, including 58 Shahid drones and 26 missiles, were destroyed by Ukrainian air defense systems during a massive Russian missile and drone attack on March 29, 2024.
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On Tuesday, March 27, the Russian army attacked Mykolaiv region, using ballistic missiles, artillery and drones, damaging infrastructure, injuring 12 people and causing minor damage to residential buildings.
Russia's claims about the effectiveness and invulnerability of its Zircon hypersonic missiles against air defense systems are exaggerated. Their use in Ukraine has shown that they do not meet the claimed characteristics and were probably used due to the lack of other missiles.
Russians fired a ballistic missile, probably an Iskander-M, from occupied Crimea, which landed in an open area in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district of Odesa region, causing no casualties or damage.
Russia's massive attack on Kharkiv caused serious damage to the energy infrastructure. The UIA called for preparations for a possible repeated blackout.
Russia strikes Odesa region with an Iskander-M missile from Crimea, causing a fire but no casualties, and residents were urged to take cover during the air raids.
Russian forces fired two Iskander-M missiles and seventeen S-300 missiles at energy facilities in Kharkiv and the region on the morning of March 22, according to Ukrainian officials.
Russia launched the largest simultaneous missile attack on energy facilities in the Kharkiv region, using at least 18 S-300 and Iskander missiles, leaving settlements without electricity and causing fires.
The morning rocket attack on Kyiv on March 21 was aimed primarily at the facilities of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, but all missiles were successfully shot down by Ukrainian air defense.
13 people, including a 13-year-old girl, were injured in a massive Russian missile attack on Kyiv using Iskander-M and Kinzhal ballistic missiles and 29 cruise missiles.
Ukrainian air defense forces successfully destroy two Kinzhal ballistic missiles and 29 cruise missiles during a night attack by Russian strategic bombers.
Russia has officially used North Korean Hwasong-11 missiles to strike Ukraine, as confirmed by experts.
On March 17, an enemy rocket attack on an infrastructure facility in Mykolaiv killed one person, injured nine, including two children, and damaged buildings, cars, and infrastructure.
On March 17, 2024, the russian federation conducted 60 shellings and caused 341 explosions in the border areas and settlements of Sumy region, killing one civilian and injuring another in the village of Velyka Pysarivka as a result of an air strike.
Six local residents were injured and houses, vehicles and infrastructure were damaged when Russian troops attacked an infrastructure facility in Mykolaiv with Iskander ballistic missiles.
As a result of the Russian missile strike on Odesa on March 15, 38 people have been hospitalized, 11 of them in serious condition, including 4 emergency workers.
Russian troops attack Odesa with Iskander-M ballistic missiles from occupied Crimea, prompting the arrival of Ukraine's Interior Minister and the head of the National Police to oversee the response.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko held an operational meeting in Odesa to discuss the situation with shelling in Ukraine, where the enemy has fired 400 times in 10 regions over the past 24 hours.
The Russian missile attack on Odesa killed 21 people, including a rescuer, and injured 38 others, 11 of them in serious condition.
A rescuer died in hospital from injuries sustained during a Russian missile attack on Odesa on March 15, bringing the death toll to 21, with more than 70 others injured.