{"id":1281576,"date":"2025-08-18T09:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russian-army-attacked-ukraine-with-missiles-and-drones-air-defense-neutralized-88-drones\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:53:02","slug":"russian-army-attacked-ukraine-with-missiles-and-drones-air-defense-neutralized-88-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russian-army-attacked-ukraine-with-missiles-and-drones-air-defense-neutralized-88-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian army attacked Ukraine with missiles and drones: air defense neutralized 88 drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russian occupiers attacked Ukraine with 4 ballistic missiles and 140 drones, air defense neutralized 88 drones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The Ukrainian Air Force <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/40624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> this.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;On the night of August 18 (from 21:00 on August 17), the enemy attacked with 4 Iskander-M ballistic missiles (from the areas of Taganrog, Millerovo, Kursk), as well as 140 Shahed-type strike UAVs and drone imitators of various types in the directions of Kursk, Orel, Bryansk, Bryansk. &#8211; TOT Crimea,&#8221; the report says.<\/p>\n<p> It is noted that the air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units and unmanned systems, and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<p> According to preliminary data, as of 09:00, air defense forces shot down\/suppressed 88 enemy Shahed-type UAVs and drone imitators of various types in the north, south, east and center of the country.<\/p>\n<p> Enemy missiles and attack UAVs were recorded hitting 25 locations in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa and Kyiv regions.<\/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>Russian occupiers attacked Ukraine with 4 ballistic missiles and 140 drones, air defense neutralized 88 drones. The Ukrainian Air Force reported this. &#8220;On the night of August 18 (from 21:00 on August 17), the enemy attacked with 4 Iskander-M ballistic missiles (from the areas of Taganrog, Millerovo, Kursk), as well as 140 Shahed-type strike UAVs [&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-1281576","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\/1281576","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=1281576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281576\/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=1281576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}