{"id":1264141,"date":"2025-07-17T08:59:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T05:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-64-drones-how-it-worked-out-its-air-defense\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T08:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T05:59:55","slug":"russia-attacked-ukraine-with-64-drones-how-it-worked-out-its-air-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-64-drones-how-it-worked-out-its-air-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacked Ukraine with 64 drones: how it worked out its air defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the night of Thursday, July 17, the Russian occupiers launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine, using 64 Shahed-type strike drones and several imitation drones of various models. Ukrainian air defense forces were able to destroy 36 of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to a message<\/a> from the Air Force Command on social media, the attacks began at around 8:30 p.m. on July 16. The enemy drones were launched from Russian territory \u2013 from the directions of Kursk, Millerovo, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk.<\/p>\n

A total of 59 drones belonged to the Shahed type, which became the enemy’s main strike force. The main target of the attack was the Dnipropetrovsk region.<\/p>\n

As of the morning of July 17, air defenses had repelled most of the attack – 36 Shahed drones had been shot down on the northern and eastern borders of the country. Another five imitation drones were disabled by electronic means.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the enemy was able to inflict damage: 23 hits were recorded in five different points.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, as of the morning of July 17, Russia has lost about 1,038,650 military personnel since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Over the course of the day, the enemy’s losses in manpower reached 1,190 people.<\/a><\/p>\n

As reported, over the past 24 hours, 160 combat clashes have occurred on the Russian-Ukrainian front<\/a> . The hottest situation remains in the Pokrov direction.<\/p>\n

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On the night of Thursday, July 17, the Russian occupiers launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine, using 64 Shahed-type strike drones and several imitation drones of various models. Ukrainian air defense forces were able to destroy 36 of them. According to a message from the Air Force Command on social media, the attacks began at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":983549,"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-1264141","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\/1264141","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=1264141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/983549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}