Air defense forces neutralized 442 enemy drones, 34 Kh-101 missiles, and seven Kalibr missiles.
Фото: пресслужба Повітряних сил ЗСУ
On the night of November 19 (from 18:00 on November 18), the enemy launched a combined attack on critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine using attack UAVs, air- and ground-based missiles.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported this.
In total, the Air Force’s radio-technical troops detected and tracked 524 air attack weapons – 48 missiles and 476 UAVs of various types:
- 476 attack UAVs of the Shahed, Gerbera type (drones of other types) in the directions of Shatalovo, Kursk, Orel, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk – Russian Federation, Gvardeyskoye – TOT Autonomous Republic of Crimea (about 300 of them are “shaheds”);
- 40 X-101 cruise missiles (launch areas: Vologda, Astrakhan regions – Russian Federation);
- 7 Kalibr cruise missiles (from the Black Sea);
- 1 Iskander-M ballistic missile (launch area: Rostov region – Russian Federation).
The main direction of attack is Lviv, Ternopil and Kharkiv regions.
The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, unmanned aerial systems, and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
According to preliminary data, as of 10:00, air defense shot down/suppressed 483 air targets:
- 442 hostile UAVs of the Shahed, Gerber type (drones of other types);
- 34 X-101 cruise missiles;
- 7 Kalibr cruise missiles.
Currently, 7 missiles and 34 attack drones have been hit at 14 locations, and downed drones (debris) have been found at 6 locations.
Let us recall that on the night of November 19, Russian troops carried out a series of attacks on the western regions of Ukraine , in particular, Ternopil and the Lviv region.
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