{"id":1279026,"date":"2025-08-12T15:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russians-attacked-ukraine-with-drones-and-missiles-how-air-defense-worked\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:14:34","slug":"russians-attacked-ukraine-with-drones-and-missiles-how-air-defense-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russians-attacked-ukraine-with-drones-and-missiles-how-air-defense-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians Attacked Ukraine with Drones and Missiles: How Air Defense Worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of August 12, Russian occupiers attacked Ukrainian territory with attack drones and Iskander-M ballistic missiles. Ukrainian air defense forces eliminated most of the enemy drones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The Air Force <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/40271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">press service<\/a> reported this.<\/p>\n<p> From 20:00 on Monday, August 11, the enemy attacked with 48 Shahed-type strike UAVs and drone imitators of various types in the directions of Bryansk, Millerovo, Shatalovo, as well as four Iskander-M\/KN-23 ballistic missiles from the Voronezh and Bryansk regions.<\/p>\n<p> Attack drones attacked the Sumy and Donetsk regions, and missiles attacked the Chernihiv region.<\/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> According to preliminary data, as of 09:00 on Tuesday, August 12, air defense shot down\/suppressed 36 enemy Shahed-type UAVs and drone imitators of various types in the north and east of the country.<\/p>\n<p> Hits from 12 UAVs and three missiles were recorded at seven locations.<\/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>On the night of August 12, Russian occupiers attacked Ukrainian territory with attack drones and Iskander-M ballistic missiles. Ukrainian air defense forces eliminated most of the enemy drones. The Air Force press service reported this. From 20:00 on Monday, August 11, the enemy attacked with 48 Shahed-type strike UAVs and drone imitators of various types [&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-1279026","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\/1279026","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=1279026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279026\/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=1279026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}