{"id":1379894,"date":"2026-04-09T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-119-drones-how-the-air-defense-worked\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:30:04","slug":"russia-attacked-ukraine-with-119-drones-how-the-air-defense-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-119-drones-how-the-air-defense-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacked Ukraine with 119 drones: how the air defense worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of Thursday, April 9, Russian occupation forces carried out a massive drone attack on Ukraine. The enemy used 119 strike drones of various types, including about 70 &#8220;Shaheeds.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/59722\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by the Air Force.<\/p>\n<p> It is noted that the drones were launched from several directions, including from the territory of Russia and temporarily occupied Crimea.<\/p>\n<p> Aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, and mobile fire groups were involved in repelling the attack.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;As of 08:00, air defenses have shot down or suppressed 119 enemy UAVs,&#8221; the report says.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, 16 strike drones were recorded hitting 11 locations. Debris from downed drones also fell in four more places.<\/p>\n<p> The Air Force warns that the attack was still ongoing in the morning.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;There are enemy UAVs in the airspace. Follow safety rules,&#8221; the military stressed.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, on the morning of Thursday, April 9, Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiia-atakuvala-zaporizhzhia-kabamy-zahynula-liudyna-ie-poraneni\/\">occupation forces struck Zaporizhia and the region<\/a> . Powerful explosions were heard in the city, and thick smoke rose above it.<\/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 Thursday, April 9, Russian occupation forces carried out a massive drone attack on Ukraine. The enemy used 119 strike drones of various types, including about 70 &#8220;Shaheeds.&#8221; This was reported by the Air Force. It is noted that the drones were launched from several directions, including from the territory of Russia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1278804,"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-1379894","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\/1379894","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=1379894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1278804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}