{"id":1258579,"date":"2025-07-10T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-hundreds-of-drones-and-missiles-how-it-practiced-air-defense\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:14:08","slug":"russia-attacked-ukraine-with-hundreds-of-drones-and-missiles-how-it-practiced-air-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-hundreds-of-drones-and-missiles-how-it-practiced-air-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacked Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles: how it practiced air defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the night of Thursday, July 10, Ukrainian air defense forces successfully repelled a massive enemy attack, destroying 164 Shahed strike drones, six Kh-101 cruise missiles, and eight Iskander-M ballistic missiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is reported by<\/a> the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

From 6:00 PM on July 9, Russian forces launched an attack on Ukraine using 415 aerial assets: 397 Shahed drones and drone simulators from the Bryansk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk, Orel, and Millerovo directions, as well as 8 Iskander-M ballistic missiles from the Bryansk region, 6 Kh-101 cruise missiles from the airspace of the Saratov region, and 4 S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the Kursk region of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n

The main direction of the attack was Kyiv.<\/p>\n

The air attack was repelled with the help of aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare (EW) units, unmanned systems, and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

According to preliminary data, as of 10:00 on July 10, the air defense had shot down 178 air attack vehicles: including 164 Shahed drones, 8 Iskander-M missiles, and 6 Kh-101 cruise missiles. Another 204 targets were detected and suppressed by electronic warfare systems.<\/p>\n

Hits were also recorded in eight locations, where 33 strike drones attacked. Downed drones and missiles were seen falling in 23 different areas.<\/p>\n

Recall, on the night of Thursday, July 10, Russia launched a combined strike on Kyiv. During the airstrike, the use of kamikaze drones and missiles of various types was recorded in the city. As a result of the enemy strikes, two people were killed and 14 others were injured.<\/a><\/p>\n

As reported, Russia has carried out one of the largest air attacks against Ukraine in recent memory<\/a> , launching dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones across the country. The main target of the attack was Kyiv and the region.<\/p>\n

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On the night of Thursday, July 10, Ukrainian air defense forces successfully repelled a massive enemy attack, destroying 164 Shahed strike drones, six Kh-101 cruise missiles, and eight Iskander-M ballistic missiles. This is reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. From 6:00 PM on July 9, Russian forces launched an attack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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-1258579","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\/1258579","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258579\/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=1258579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}