{"id":1335976,"date":"2025-12-23T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-launched-600-drones-and-missiles-at-ukraine-how-many-did-air-defense-shoot-down\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:03:22","slug":"russia-launched-600-drones-and-missiles-at-ukraine-how-many-did-air-defense-shoot-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-launched-600-drones-and-missiles-at-ukraine-how-many-did-air-defense-shoot-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia launched 600 drones and missiles at Ukraine: how many did air defense shoot down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of December 22-23 (starting at 6:00 p.m. on December 22), the enemy carried out a combined attack on critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, using both unmanned attack systems and missiles of various types &#8211; air- and ground-based.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kpszsu\/posts\/pfbid0389hbvPnbfiy6HeHWYnJ1ANYdKpQRUEdWF4DVPSxewnAtU4EJuCbX85dQveVMogLNl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> The radio engineering units of the Air Force detected and tracked a total of 673 air targets: 38 missiles and 635 UAVs of various models. Details:<\/p>\n<p> 635 Shahed and Gerber strike drones (other drone models) were launched from Kursk, Orel, Millerovo, Bryansk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk (Russia), as well as Chauda and Crimea. About 400 of them are Shahed drones.<\/p>\n<p> 3 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles, which were launched from the territory of the Ryazan region of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p> 35 Kh-101 and Iskander-K cruise missiles launched from the Vologda and Kursk regions of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p> The attack was repelled by Air Force units: aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare complexes and unmanned systems, as well as mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<p> As of 11:30, the destruction or suppression of 621 air targets has been provisionally confirmed:<\/p>\n<p> 587 Shahed, Gerber and other attack UAVs;<\/p>\n<p> 34 Kh-101 and Iskander-K cruise missiles.<\/p>\n<p> As a result of the attack, 21 locations were hit &#8211; missiles and 39 strike UAVs reached their targets. Downed aircraft and debris fell in 8 different areas. In addition, three aeroballistic missiles did not reach their targets, the places of impact are being specified.<\/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 December 22-23 (starting at 6:00 p.m. on December 22), the enemy carried out a combined attack on critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, using both unmanned attack systems and missiles of various types &#8211; air- and ground-based. This was reported by the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1293532,"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-1335976","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\/1335976","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=1335976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}