{"id":1333812,"date":"2025-12-17T09:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-launched-69-uavs-over-ukraine-how-many-did-air-defense-repel\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:37:37","slug":"russia-launched-69-uavs-over-ukraine-how-many-did-air-defense-repel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-launched-69-uavs-over-ukraine-how-many-did-air-defense-repel\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia launched 69 UAVs over Ukraine: how many did air defense repel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukrainian air defense forces neutralized 37 out of 69 enemy drones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/49985\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> The attack began at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 16, when Russia launched 69 Shahed, Gerbera attack UAVs and other drones from the directions of Kursk, Orel, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Millerovo (Russian Federation) and Gvardiyske (temporarily occupied Crimea). About 40 of them were Shahed drones.<\/p>\n<p> The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<p> As of 09:00 on Wednesday, December 17, Ukraine&#8217;s air defenses had destroyed or suppressed 37 enemy drones in the north, east, and south of the country. As a result of the attack, 29 strike UAVs were hit in 12 locations.<\/p>\n<p> The Air Force emphasized that the attack is ongoing, and several enemy drones are still in Ukrainian airspace.<\/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>Ukrainian air defense forces neutralized 37 out of 69 enemy drones. This is reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The attack began at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 16, when Russia launched 69 Shahed, Gerbera attack UAVs and other drones from the directions of Kursk, Orel, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Millerovo (Russian Federation) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":965556,"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-1333812","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\/1333812","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=1333812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}