{"id":1341785,"date":"2026-01-08T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-97-drones-air-defense-forces-destroyed-and-suppressed-70-uavs\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:00:43","slug":"russia-attacked-ukraine-with-97-drones-air-defense-forces-destroyed-and-suppressed-70-uavs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-97-drones-air-defense-forces-destroyed-and-suppressed-70-uavs\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacked Ukraine with 97 drones: air defense forces destroyed and suppressed 70 UAVs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"45\" data-end=\"118\">\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"120\" data-end=\"248\">On the night of January 8, Russian troops launched a massive attack on Ukraine, using 97 attack drones of various types.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"250\" data-end=\"319\"> The command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"321\" data-end=\"603\"> According to the Ukrainian Frontier Service, the occupiers launched Shahed, Gerbera, and other types of UAVs from Russian territory\u2014from the Millerovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk areas, as well as from temporarily occupied Crimea (Chauda, Gvardeyskoye) and Donetsk. About 70 of the launched drones were Shaheds.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"605\" data-end=\"792\"> The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, unmanned aerial systems, and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"794\" data-end=\"939\"> As of 8:00 a.m., according to preliminary data, Ukraine&#8217;s air defense destroyed or suppressed 70 enemy drones in the east and south of the country.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"941\" data-end=\"1061\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> At the same time, 27 strike UAVs were recorded hitting 13 locations, as well as the fall of debris from downed drones at another location. <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2197\" data-end=\"2388\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/znestrumleni-mayzhe-povnistiu-rosiia-obstriliala-zaporizku-ta-dnipropetrovsku-oblasti\/\">Russia shelled the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions<\/a> with drones. As a result of the prolonged and massive attack, which began mid-day on January 7, power outages continue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/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<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of January 8, Russian troops launched a massive attack on Ukraine, using 97 attack drones of various types. The command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this. According to the Ukrainian Frontier Service, the occupiers launched Shahed, Gerbera, and other types of UAVs from Russian territory\u2014from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1291002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1341785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341785","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}