{"id":1312520,"date":"2025-10-28T11:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/shaheds-have-become-more-dangerous-than-ballistic-missiles-zelensky-said\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:12:21","slug":"shaheds-have-become-more-dangerous-than-ballistic-missiles-zelensky-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/shaheds-have-become-more-dangerous-than-ballistic-missiles-zelensky-said\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shaheds&#8221; have become more dangerous than ballistic missiles, Zelensky said."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"293\"><strong>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that attack drones like the Shahed currently pose a greater threat to Ukrainian cities than ballistic missiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"293\"> He said this during a meeting with journalists on October 27.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"295\" data-end=\"579\"> According to the head of state, ballistic missiles are effectively intercepted in areas where Patriot systems operate, and a massive wave of &#8220;shahids&#8221; requires comprehensive defensive measures. &#8220;To shoot down such a large number of &#8220;shahids&#8221; at such an altitude, we must use everything we can,&#8221; Zelenskyy emphasized.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"581\" data-end=\"962\"> The President also discussed the use of various air defense and aviation assets to repel attacks\u2014interceptors, F-16s, and helicopters\u2014and drew attention to the impact of weather conditions on defense effectiveness. He added that in November, the Ukrainian Armed Forces expect to reach a level of 500\u2013800 interceptors per day, but noted the need to train a sufficient number of operators for mobile fire teams.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"964\" data-end=\"1109\"> Zelensky also noted that, along with air defense, Ukraine needs long-range weapons to adequately respond to enemy attacks.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"964\" data-end=\"1109\"> Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/znyshchuie-tsil-na-shvydkosti-ponad-300-kilometriv-na-hodynu-ukrainska-kompaniia-rozrobyla-dron-dlia-protydii-shakhedam\/\">the Ukrainian company General Chereshnya unveiled<\/a> a drone capable of countering Russian attack drones \u2013 the &#8220;anti-shahed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that attack drones like the Shahed currently pose a greater threat to Ukrainian cities than ballistic missiles. He said this during a meeting with journalists on October 27. According to the head of state, ballistic missiles are effectively intercepted in areas where Patriot systems operate, and a massive wave of &#8220;shahids&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1297896,"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-1312520","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\/1312520","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=1312520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1297896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}