{"id":1279241,"date":"2025-08-13T08:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-49-drones-and-two-iskanders-how-it-practiced-air-defense\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T08:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:35:16","slug":"russia-attacked-ukraine-with-49-drones-and-two-iskanders-how-it-practiced-air-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-49-drones-and-two-iskanders-how-it-practiced-air-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacked Ukraine with 49 drones and two Iskanders: how it practiced air defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of August 13 (starting at 9:00 p.m. on August 12), Russian forces carried out another massive air attack on the territory of Ukraine. The enemy used 49 Shahed attack drones and various types of simulator drones, as well as 2 Iskander-M\/KN-23 ballistic missiles launched from the Kursk region of the Russian Federation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/40326\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> The UAV launch destinations were Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and Shatalovo (Russia). The main targets of the attacks were Donetsk, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions, and the Poltava region was hit by missiles.<\/p>\n<p> Air defense forces were involved in repelling the air attack: aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, unmanned systems, and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> According to preliminary data as of 08:00, air defense forces destroyed or suppressed 34 enemy targets:<\/p>\n<p> 2 Iskander-M\/KN-23 ballistic missiles<\/p>\n<p> 32 Shahed drones and imitation drones<\/p>\n<p> The attack resulted in the downing of 17 drones in 15 different locations in the north and east of the country.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of August 13 (starting at 9:00 p.m. on August 12), Russian forces carried out another massive air attack on the territory of Ukraine. The enemy used 49 Shahed attack drones and various types of simulator drones, as well as 2 Iskander-M\/KN-23 ballistic missiles launched from the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1278804,"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-1279241","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\/1279241","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=1279241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1278804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}