{"id":1334648,"date":"2025-12-19T08:33:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/160-strike-uavs-per-night-how-the-ukrainian-air-defense-worked\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:33:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:33:27","slug":"160-strike-uavs-per-night-how-the-ukrainian-air-defense-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/160-strike-uavs-per-night-how-the-ukrainian-air-defense-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"160 strike UAVs per night: how the Ukrainian air defense worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of December 19, Russian forces launched another massive air attack on Ukraine, using 160 strike drones. Air defense forces managed to shoot down or suppress 108 enemy drones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/50167\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> According to the military, the attack lasted from the evening of December 18 \u2014 starting at 6:30 p.m. \u2014 and continued until the morning of the next day. The Russians launched Shahed, Gerbera, and other types of drones from Russian territory, in particular from the Orel, Kursk, Bryansk, Millerovoye, and Primorsky-Akhtarsk regions, as well as from temporarily occupied Crimea \u2014 from the Gvardiyskoye direction. Approximately 90 of the drones launched were Shaheds.<\/p>\n<p> The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups, and unmanned systems units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> As of 08:00, air defenses had destroyed or suppressed 108 enemy UAVs in the south and east of the country. At the same time, 47 strike drones were recorded being hit in 23 different locations.<\/p>\n<p> The Air Force emphasizes that the air attack is not over, enemy drones remain in Ukrainian skies, and urges citizens not to ignore air alert signals and to follow safety rules.<\/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 December 19, Russian forces launched another massive air attack on Ukraine, using 160 strike drones. Air defense forces managed to shoot down or suppress 108 enemy drones. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the military, the attack lasted from the evening of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1275077,"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-1334648","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\/1334648","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=1334648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1275077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}