{"id":1371746,"date":"2026-03-20T09:01:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-156-drones-how-the-air-defense-worked\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:01:57","slug":"russia-attacked-ukraine-with-156-drones-how-the-air-defense-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-156-drones-how-the-air-defense-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacked Ukraine with 156 drones: how the air defense worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of Friday, March 20, Russia attacked Ukraine with 156 drones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/58388\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Since 18:00 on March 19, the enemy attacked with 156 strike UAVs of the Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas type and drones of other types from the directions: Bryansk, Orel, Kursk, Shatalovo, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, &#8211; RF, Gvardiyske, Chauda &#8211; TOT AR Crimea, about 90 of them &#8211; &#8220;Shaheeds&#8221; &#8211; the post says.<\/p>\n<p> The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare and unmanned systems units, and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> According to preliminary data, as of 08:00, air defenses shot down\/suppressed 133 enemy UAVs.<\/p>\n<p> 19 strike UAVs were recorded hitting 13 locations, as well as downed UAVs (fragments) falling in 7 locations.<\/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:\/\/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 Friday, March 20, Russia attacked Ukraine with 156 drones. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. &#8220;Since 18:00 on March 19, the enemy attacked with 156 strike UAVs of the Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas type and drones of other types from the directions: Bryansk, Orel, Kursk, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1278811,"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-1371746","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\/1371746","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=1371746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1278811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}