{"id":1281360,"date":"2025-08-17T10:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-russian-army-attacked-ukraine-with-missiles-and-drones-at-night-how-the-air-defense-worked\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T10:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T07:03:10","slug":"the-russian-army-attacked-ukraine-with-missiles-and-drones-at-night-how-the-air-defense-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-russian-army-attacked-ukraine-with-missiles-and-drones-at-night-how-the-air-defense-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian army attacked Ukraine with missiles and drones at night: how the air defense worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"123\" data-end=\"278\"><strong>On the night of Sunday, August 17, Russian troops again attacked Ukrainian territory with attack drones and a missile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The Ukrainian Air Force <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/40519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> this.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"280\" data-end=\"486\"> From 19:30 on August 16, the occupiers launched an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 60 Shahed attack drones and drone imitators at Ukraine in the directions of Kursk, Bryansk, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Shatalovo.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"618\"> The air attack was repelled by electronic warfare units, mobile fire teams and unmanned aerial systems.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"620\" data-end=\"746\"> As of 09:00, Ukrainian air defense shot down and suppressed 40 enemy UAVs of various types in the north and east of the country.<\/p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of Sunday, August 17, Russian troops again attacked Ukrainian territory with attack drones and a missile. The Ukrainian Air Force reported this. From 19:30 on August 16, the occupiers launched an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 60 Shahed attack drones and drone imitators at Ukraine in the directions of Kursk, Bryansk, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1229560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1281360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281360","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1229560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}