{"id":1383140,"date":"2026-04-17T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-shaheeds-and-a-missile-how-it-practiced-air-defense\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:00:58","slug":"russia-attacked-ukraine-with-shaheeds-and-a-missile-how-it-practiced-air-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-shaheeds-and-a-missile-how-it-practiced-air-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacked Ukraine with \u201cshaheeds\u201d and a missile: how it practiced air defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of April 17, the Russian occupation army attacked Ukraine with drones and ballistic missiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/60182#\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;From 18:00 on April 16, the enemy attacked with one Iskander-M ballistic missile from the TOT of the AR Crimea, as well as 172 strike UAVs of the Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas type and drones of other types from the directions: Bryansk, Kursk, Orel, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk &#8211; RF, Gvardiyske &#8211; TOT of the AR Crimea, about 120 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 147 enemy Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas UAVs and drones of other types in the north, south, and east of the country.<\/p>\n<p> A ballistic missile and 20 strike UAVs were recorded at 8 locations, as well as falling debris at 4 locations.<\/p>\n<p> The military emphasizes that the attack is currently ongoing, with several enemy UAVs in the airspace.<\/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 April 17, the Russian occupation army attacked Ukraine with drones and ballistic missiles. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. &#8220;From 18:00 on April 16, the enemy attacked with one Iskander-M ballistic missile from the TOT of the AR Crimea, as well as 172 strike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1275077,"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-1383140","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\/1383140","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=1383140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1275077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}