{"id":1248242,"date":"2025-06-18T14:48:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-58-drones-how-many-were-destroyed-by-air-defense\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:48:59","slug":"russia-attacked-ukraine-with-58-drones-how-many-were-destroyed-by-air-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-58-drones-how-many-were-destroyed-by-air-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacked Ukraine with 58 drones: how many were destroyed by air defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Air defense forces have neutralized 30 of the 58 drones that Russian occupiers used to attack Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The Ukrainian Air Force reported this.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;On the night of June 18 (from 23:00 on June 17), the enemy attacked with 58 Shahed-type strike UAVs and drone imitators of various types in the following directions: Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk &#8211; Russian Federation, Chauda &#8211; TOT Crimea,&#8221; the report says.<\/p>\n<p> The main directions of attack are Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk region and Zaporozhye.<\/p>\n<p> The air attack was repelled by anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, unmanned systems, and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<p> As of 08:30, the air defense neutralized 30 hostile Shahed-type UAVs (drones of other types) in the east and north of the country. 12 were shot down by fire weapons, 18 were lost\/suppressed by electronic warfare.<\/p>\n<p> Enemy air strikes were recorded in 9 locations. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?22\" data-telegram-post=\"kpszsu\/36559\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air defense forces have neutralized 30 of the 58 drones that Russian occupiers used to attack Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force reported this. &#8220;On the night of June 18 (from 23:00 on June 17), the enemy attacked with 58 Shahed-type strike UAVs and drone imitators of various types in the following directions: Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":965562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1248242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}