{"id":1372624,"date":"2026-03-23T09:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-251-drones-air-defense-destroyed-234-targets-with-hits-and-casualties\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:37:13","slug":"russia-attacked-ukraine-with-251-drones-air-defense-destroyed-234-targets-with-hits-and-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-251-drones-air-defense-destroyed-234-targets-with-hits-and-casualties\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacked Ukraine with 251 drones: Air defense destroyed 234 targets, with hits and casualties."},"content":{"rendered":"

On the night of March 23, Russian troops launched 251 drones at Ukraine, 234 of which were destroyed or suppressed by air defense forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Ukrainian Air Force reported<\/u><\/a> this.<\/p>\n

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According to military data, the enemy used attack drones of the Shahed-136<\/span><\/span> , Gerber<\/span><\/span> , and Italmas<\/span><\/span> types. About 150 of them were Shaheds. The attacks were carried out from Bryansk<\/span><\/span> , Orel<\/span><\/span> , Kursk<\/span><\/span> , Millerovo<\/span><\/span> , Primorsko-Akhtarsk<\/span><\/span> , and the temporarily occupied Gvardeyskoye<\/span><\/span> in Crimea.<\/p>\n

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Air defense forces destroyed 234 aerial targets. At the same time, 17 attack UAV strikes were recorded at 11 locations, as well as debris impacts at eight locations.<\/p>\n

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Odessa region<\/p>\n

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Residential buildings in the Odesa<\/span><\/span> suburbs and port infrastructure were hit. According to Odesa Regional State Administration Head Oleh Kiper<\/span><\/span> , debris damaged the roofs and windows of two private homes. A train was also hit within the port area.<\/p>\n

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There were no casualties, and the relevant services are working on the ground.<\/p>\n

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Kirovograd region<\/p>\n

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According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine<\/span><\/span> , residential buildings were damaged and fires broke out in the Kropyvnytskyi district. Two injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

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Kirovohrad Regional State Administration Head Andriy Raikovich<\/span><\/span> clarified that buildings in Znamenka and Oleksandria were hit. One woman was hospitalized, and a man received medical treatment at the scene.<\/p>\n

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Dnipropetrovsk region<\/p>\n

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Regional Governor Oleksandr Ganzha<\/span><\/span> reported that Russians have attacked the region nearly 30 times. Infrastructure in Kryvyi Rih<\/span><\/span> was damaged, and two people were moderately injured.<\/p>\n

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Nikopol<\/span><\/span> , Marganets, Pokrovskaya and Krasnogrigoryevskaya communities were also hit, with businesses, homes and cars damaged.<\/p>\n

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In the Sinelnykivshchyna region, the Petropavlovsk and Vasilkivska communities suffered, where fires broke out.<\/p>\n

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Kharkiv region<\/p>\n

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Kharkiv Regional State Administration Head Oleg Sinegubov<\/span><\/span> reported that Russians attacked nine settlements in the region over the course of 24 hours.<\/p>\n

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In particular, in the village of Stary Saltov,<\/span><\/span> a 77-year-old woman experienced an acute stress reaction.<\/p>\n

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In total, the enemy used 10 guided bombs, seven Geran-2 drones, two FPV drones, and eight more unmanned aerial vehicles. The shelling damaged civilian infrastructure in the Kupyansk, Izyum, Kharkiv, Lozovsky, and Chuguevsky districts.<\/p>\n

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On the night of March 23, Russian troops launched 251 drones at Ukraine, 234 of which were destroyed or suppressed by air defense forces. The Ukrainian Air Force reported this. According to military data, the enemy used attack drones of the Shahed-136 , Gerber , and Italmas types. About 150 of them were Shaheds. The […]<\/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-1372624","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\/1372624","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=1372624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372624\/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=1372624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}