{"id":1341356,"date":"2026-01-07T10:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russian-night-attack-how-ukrainian-air-defense-worked\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:02:10","slug":"russian-night-attack-how-ukrainian-air-defense-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russian-night-attack-how-ukrainian-air-defense-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian night attack: how Ukrainian air defense worked"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the night of January 7, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with a ballistic missile and nearly a hundred strike drones. Air defense forces destroyed most of the air targets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is reported by<\/a> the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The attack began at around 6:00 p.m. on January 6. Russia launched one Iskander-M ballistic missile from the Taganrog region, as well as 95 Shahed, Gerbera, and other types of strike drones. The launches were carried out from the directions of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Orel, and Gvardiyske in temporarily occupied Crimea, as well as from the Donetsk region. About 60 of the drones were Shaheds.<\/p>\n

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The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, unmanned systems, and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces.<\/p>\n

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As of 07:30, air defense forces had shot down or suppressed one ballistic missile and 81 enemy drones in the north, center, and east of the country. <\/p>\n

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At the same time, 14 strike UAVs were recorded hitting eight locations, as well as the falling debris of downed drones at five more sites. The attack continues – enemy drones remain in the airspace. Citizens are urged not to ignore air alert signals and to follow safety rules.<\/p>\n

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As a reminder, over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed another 1,040 Russian occupiers, as well as dozens of pieces of equipment and weapons.<\/a> <\/p>\n

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On the night of January 7, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with a ballistic missile and nearly a hundred strike drones. Air defense forces destroyed most of the air targets. This is reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The attack began at around 6:00 p.m. on January 6. Russia launched one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"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-1341356","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\/1341356","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341356\/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=1341356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}