{"id":1336772,"date":"2025-12-25T11:05:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/on-christmas-eve-the-russians-attacked-ukraine-details-from-the-air-force\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T11:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:05:58","slug":"on-christmas-eve-the-russians-attacked-ukraine-details-from-the-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/on-christmas-eve-the-russians-attacked-ukraine-details-from-the-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"On Christmas Eve, the Russians attacked Ukraine: details from the Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukraine repelled a large-scale nighttime drone attack on December 25, during which Russian forces launched drones from six different directions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> According to information <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/50715\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the vast majority of these aerial objects were shot down by air defense forces.<\/p>\n<p> Representatives of the Air Force reported that on the night of December 25, starting at 7:00 p.m. on December 24, the enemy deployed 131 strike drones. Among them were drones of the &#8220;Shahed&#8221;, &#8220;Gerber&#8221; and other models.<\/p>\n<p> The launches took place from various locations, including Kursk, Orel, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, temporarily occupied Donetsk, as well as Gvardiyske and Chaudy in occupied Crimea. About 90 of these devices have been identified as &#8220;Shakheds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The enemy continues to attack with drones. Follow safety rules,&#8221; the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine urged.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/when-the-sky-became-ours-how-ukrainian-pilots-did-the-impossible\/\">They Took the Sky: How Ukrainian Pilots Defied the Impossible<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> By the morning of December 25, according to preliminary data as of 08:30, Ukrainian defense had destroyed or suppressed 106 enemy UAVs, including &#8220;Shahed&#8221; and &#8220;Gerbera&#8221;, in the northern, southern and eastern regions of the country.<\/p>\n<p> Aircraft, anti-aircraft missile systems, electronic warfare means, unmanned aerial vehicle systems, and mobile fire crews of the Ukrainian Defense Forces were involved in the counterattack. However, 22 strike drones still reached their targets at 15 different sites.<\/p>\n<p> Let us remind you that on the night of December 22-23 (starting at 6:00 PM 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.<\/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. Air defense <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiia-vypustyla-600-droniv-i-raket-po-ukraini-skilky-zbyla-ppo\/\">shot down\/suppressed 621 air targets.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> In addition, on the night of December 24, Russian forces carried out a massive drone attack on Ukraine, using<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiia-vnochi-atakuvala-ukrainu-116-dronamy-ppo-znyshchyla-ponad-polovynu\/\">116 drones of various types<\/a> . More than half of them were neutralized by the Defense Forces.<\/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>Ukraine repelled a large-scale nighttime drone attack on December 25, during which Russian forces launched drones from six different directions. According to information released by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the vast majority of these aerial objects were shot down by air defense forces. Representatives of the Air Force reported that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1278810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76874,76885],"class_list":["post-1336772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-war","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336772","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1278810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}