{"id":1294340,"date":"2025-09-19T10:23:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russians-attacked-ukraine-with-71-drones-how-many-did-air-defense-destroy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:23:26","slug":"russians-attacked-ukraine-with-71-drones-how-many-did-air-defense-destroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russians-attacked-ukraine-with-71-drones-how-many-did-air-defense-destroy\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians attacked Ukraine with 71 drones: how many did air defense destroy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of September 19, the Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed 71 enemy drones in the air. In total, Russian troops launched 86 drones over the territory of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/42612\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p> The attack began at around 9:00 PM on September 18. According to official data, the occupiers used more than 50 Shahed attack drones, as well as multi-purpose UAVs, including Gerber and other modifications.<\/p>\n<p> The launches were carried out from several directions: in particular, from the Kursk, Shatalovo, Millerovoye, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk districts in Russia.<\/p>\n<p> Air defense units, aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, mobile fire groups, electronic warfare systems, and the Defense Forces&#8217; own unmanned systems were involved in repelling the attack.<\/p>\n<p> According to preliminary estimates, as of 09:00 on September 19, 71 enemy drones had been destroyed or suppressed. 15 drones were hit in six regions, and debris from downed targets fell in two more locations.<\/p>\n<p> The Air Force notes that the attack is ongoing &#8211; the movement of a new group of Russian drones has been recorded from the north.<\/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 September 19, the Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed 71 enemy drones in the air. In total, Russian troops launched 86 drones over the territory of Ukraine. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Telegram. The attack began at around 9:00 PM on September 18. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1273132,"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-1294340","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\/1294340","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=1294340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}