{"id":1321356,"date":"2025-11-17T09:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-russian-army-attacked-ukraine-with-128-drones-and-iskanders-how-the-air-defense-worked\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:47:12","slug":"the-russian-army-attacked-ukraine-with-128-drones-and-iskanders-how-the-air-defense-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-russian-army-attacked-ukraine-with-128-drones-and-iskanders-how-the-air-defense-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian army attacked Ukraine with 128 drones and Iskanders: how the air defense worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of November 17, the Russians attacked Ukraine with two missiles and 128 drones. 32 strike drones were recorded hitting 15 locations, as well as two ballistic missiles hitting 2 locations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/47642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was reported by<\/a> the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Since 20:00 on Sunday, November 16, the invaders attacked Ukraine with two Iskander-M ballistic missiles from the Rostov region and 128 Shahed, Gerbera attack UAVs and drones of other types from the following directions: Kursk, Bryansk, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk (Russian Federation), Chauda (temporarily occupied Crimea). About 80 of these UAVs are Shahed drones.<\/p>\n<p> The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare and unmanned systems units, and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> According to preliminary data, as of 09:00 on Monday, November 17, the air defense system had shot down\/suppressed 91 UAVs in the north, south, and east of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Hits of 32 strike UAVs were recorded at 15 locations, as well as two ballistic missiles at two locations.<\/p>\n<p> The attack is ongoing, there are several enemy drones in the airspace.<\/p>\n<p> In total <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zsu-za-dobu-znyshchyly-1160-okupantiv-ta-310-odynyts-tekhniky-voroha\/\">, the losses of the Russian invaders over the past day amounted to 1,160 people<\/a> . The enemy also lost two tanks, three armored combat vehicles, 17 artillery systems, one multiple launch rocket system, two air defense systems, 213 operational-tactical unmanned aerial vehicles, and 72 units of automotive equipment.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of November 17, the Russians attacked Ukraine with two missiles and 128 drones. 32 strike drones were recorded hitting 15 locations, as well as two ballistic missiles hitting 2 locations. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Since 20:00 on Sunday, November 16, the invaders attacked [&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":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1321356","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\/1321356","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=1321356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321356\/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=1321356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}