{"id":1366845,"date":"2026-03-08T09:31:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-two-iskander-missiles-and-117-drones-air-defense-destroyed-98-uavs\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T09:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:31:30","slug":"russia-attacked-ukraine-with-two-iskander-missiles-and-117-drones-air-defense-destroyed-98-uavs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-two-iskander-missiles-and-117-drones-air-defense-destroyed-98-uavs\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacked Ukraine with two Iskander missiles and 117 drones: Air defense destroyed 98 UAVs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"82\" data-end=\"290\"><strong>On the night of March 8, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 117 drones of various types. Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed most of the enemy drones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"292\" data-end=\"329\"> The Ukrainian Air Force reported this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"331\" data-end=\"639\"> According to military data, the Russians launched ballistic missiles from the Rostov and Voronezh regions. The enemy launched drones from the areas of Bryansk, Kursk, Orel, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Millerovo, and Gvardeyskoye in temporarily occupied Crimea. Approximately 70 of the 117 drones were Shahed-class attack UAVs.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"641\" data-end=\"804\"> The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, unmanned systems, and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"806\" data-end=\"973\"> According to preliminary data, Ukrainian air defenses shot down or suppressed 98 Shahed, Gerber, and other drones in the north, east, and south of the country.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"975\" data-end=\"1061\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> At the same time, two ballistic missiles and 19 attack UAVs were hit at 11 locations.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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 March 8, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 117 drones of various types. Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed most of the enemy drones. The Ukrainian Air Force reported this. According to military data, the Russians launched ballistic missiles from the Rostov and Voronezh regions. The enemy launched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1293532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1366845","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\/1366845","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=1366845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366845\/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=1366845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}