{"id":1308700,"date":"2025-10-20T10:16:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-drones-and-missiles-how-the-air-defense-system-responded\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:16:48","slug":"russia-attacked-ukraine-with-drones-and-missiles-how-the-air-defense-system-responded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-drones-and-missiles-how-the-air-defense-system-responded\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles: how the air defense system responded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russian occupiers attacked Ukrainian territory with 60 attack drones and three Iskander-M\/KN-23 ballistic missiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The Ukrainian Air Force reported this.<\/p>\n<p> Specifically, on the night of October 20, the enemy attacked with three Iskander-M\/KN-23 ballistic missiles from the Crimean TOT, as well as 60 Shahed, Gerbera, and other types of attack drones from four directions. About 40 of these were Shaheds.<\/p>\n<p> The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, unmanned aerial 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 or suppressed 38 enemy UAVs of the Shahed, Gerbera, and other types in the north, south, and east of the country.<\/p>\n<p> The impact of 3 ballistic missiles and 20 attack UAVs was recorded at 12 locations.<\/p>\n<p> In total, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zsu-za-dobu-znyshchyly-890-okupantiv-ta-45-artsystem-voroha\/\">the Russian invaders suffered 890 casualties over the past 24 hours<\/a> . Ukrainian forces also neutralized two tanks, 45 artillery systems, one air defense system, 398 operational-tactical unmanned aerial vehicles, and 94 vehicles belonging to the invaders.<\/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 Ukrainian territory with 60 attack drones and three Iskander-M\/KN-23 ballistic missiles. The Ukrainian Air Force reported this. Specifically, on the night of October 20, the enemy attacked with three Iskander-M\/KN-23 ballistic missiles from the Crimean TOT, as well as 60 Shahed, Gerbera, and other types of attack drones from four directions. About [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1254933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76874,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1308700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308700","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=1308700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1254933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}