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On the night of July 20, the Ukrainian Air Force shot down 13 enemy drones. Russia attacked 5 regions of Ukraine using ballistic and cruise missiles and drones.
In Ukraine, 4 enemy reconnaissance drones were destroyed in the south over the past day, and Russian troops attacked Kherson and Odesa regions with ballistic missiles.
At night, Russian troops launched a ballistic missile attack on Odesa region, and in the morning resumed air strikes with anti-aircraft missiles on Kherson region.
Overnight, 14 out of 20 Shahed attack drones launched by Russian troops were destroyed in the skies over Ukraine, the enemy attacked the port infrastructure of Odesa region with missiles, three enemy X-59/X-69 missiles and three attack drones did not reach their targets.
On July 9, Russian troops attacked Odesa region with a ballistic missile, probably an Iskander-M, and Ukrainian air defense destroyed five reconnaissance drones in the region.
Russia fired 38 missiles at Ukraine worth $200-250 million, and Ukrainian air defense shot down 30 missiles worth $160-200 million.
Ukrainian air defense forces shot down three Russian cruise missiles in Zhytomyr and Cherkasy regions overnight.
Overnight, Ukrainian air defense forces shot down 13 attack drones in Kirovohrad, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Poltava regions.
Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, spoke about passive defense and why "not everything is so clear" with "losses" after Russian attacks.
Ukrainian air defense successfully shoots down 21 of 22 Russian Shahed attack drones launched at night from the Kursk region of Russia.
In the morning, one Iskander-K missile out of three launched by Russian troops, all of the four enemy X-59 missiles and all of the five Shahed drones, as well as one Orlan-10 drone were destroyed in the skies over Ukraine.
Thirty of the 84 apartments in a building in Kyiv's Obolon district were damaged by shrapnel during a Russian missile attack. One apartment was burned out and another was partially damaged, although the building's supporting structures remained intact.
Russians attacked Kyiv with Iskander-K cruise missiles on June 30, they were shot down, but the debris caused damage to infrastructure.
russian troops fired a ballistic missile with a cluster munition at Odesa region, causing a fire in a wheat field.
Russian forces fired 2,367 times in Donetsk region, damaging 60 civilian objects, including residential buildings, administrative buildings, cafes, shops, a bus station, cars and power lines.
Two men were wounded when Russian invaders fired at food depots in Kryvyi Rih with an Iskander-M ballistic missile.
The Air Force shot down 5 of the 9 missiles and all 27 unmanned aerial vehicles launched by Russia at night in several regions of Ukraine.
The Russians attacked the Odessa region with a ballistic missile from the occupied Crimea. In addition, during the day, the air defense of the south of Ukraine destroyed the Orlan-10 reconnaissance drone in Mykolaiv region and The Lancet strike drone in Kherson region.
The second stage of nuclear exercises with the participation of Russia and Belarus, dedicated to joint preparations for the possible combat use of non-strategic nuclear weapons, has begun.
In Belarus, two new hangars resembling shelters for Iskander missile systems are being built in a military unit in Osipovichi, as well as abandoned barracks and an administrative building are being reconstructed, which provides for the potential placement of additional Iskander complexes capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
17 of the 18 attack drones were shot down in Mykolaiv, Kherson, Zaporizhia and Khmelnytsky regions during an air battle.
The Russian army shelled a resort village in the Odessa region, hitting tourist infrastructure facilities. The inspection continues, and a full list of damage and damage is being established.
An explosion occurred in Odessa after the Air Force warned of a missile threat from the Crimea.
An explosion was heard in Odessa amid an air alert, and the mayor warned of a potential threat of ballistic missiles after the Ukrainian Air Defense Forces destroyed two Iskander missiles and two drones overnight.
According to the commander of the armed forces of Ukraine, on the night of June 4, Ukrainian air defense systems shot down two Iskander cruise missiles and two drones, while the other two drones ceased to exist independently.
The air defense forces destroyed 24 Russian attack drones during a night attack using cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles launched from Crimea and Russia.
The Ukrainian Air Force shot down 35 Russian missiles and 46 drones in a massive missile attack on the night of June 1.
An explosion occurred in Odessa amid the announcement of an air alert and the threat of ballistic missile strikes by the Russian occupiers.
The SBU has collected evidence against Russian Major General Robert Baranov, whose unit is responsible for programming the trajectories of missiles aimed at civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, which has killed at least 520 children since the full-scale invasion.
Ukraine will never have enough missiles and air defense systems to effectively counter Russia's massive combined air attacks, so it needs more systems like Patriot, IRIS-T, and NASAMS.