{"id":1347069,"date":"2026-01-21T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-almost-a-hundred-drones-and-iskander-how-it-practiced-air-defense\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:02:00","slug":"russia-attacked-ukraine-with-almost-a-hundred-drones-and-iskander-how-it-practiced-air-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-almost-a-hundred-drones-and-iskander-how-it-practiced-air-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacked Ukraine with almost a hundred drones and Iskander: how it practiced air defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the evening of January 20 and throughout the night, Russia carried out a massive air strike on Ukraine, using dozens of strike drones and a ballistic missile. Ukrainian air defense forces were able to neutralize most of the air targets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As reported by<\/a> the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in total, the enemy launched 97 strike UAVs, including Shahed, Gerbera and other types of drones, as well as one Iskander-M ballistic missile launched from the territory of temporarily occupied Crimea. About seven dozen drones were Shaheds.<\/p>\n

Drone launches were recorded from several directions \u2014 the Kursk, Oryol, and Rostov regions of the Russian Federation, the Primorsky-Akhtarsk region, Cape Chauda in Crimea, as well as from temporarily occupied Donetsk.<\/p>\n

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

As of 08:30 on Wednesday, January 21, 84 enemy drones have been confirmed destroyed or suppressed in the northern, southern and eastern regions of the country. At the same time, a ballistic missile and 13 strike drones were recorded hitting 11 locations, as well as debris from downed targets falling on another facility.<\/p>\n

The Air Force noted that the air threat remains \u2014 there are still several enemy drones in the skies over Ukraine, and combat operations are ongoing.<\/p>\n

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On the evening of January 20 and throughout the night, Russia carried out a massive air strike on Ukraine, using dozens of strike drones and a ballistic missile. Ukrainian air defense forces were able to neutralize most of the air targets. As reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in total, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1248612,"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-1347069","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\/1347069","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=1347069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1248612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}