{"id":1390745,"date":"2026-05-07T09:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-over-a-hundred-drones-how-many-did-air-defense-shoot-down-3\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:45:47","slug":"russia-attacked-ukraine-with-over-a-hundred-drones-how-many-did-air-defense-shoot-down-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-over-a-hundred-drones-how-many-did-air-defense-shoot-down-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacked Ukraine with over a hundred drones: how many did air defense shoot down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of Thursday, May 7, Russian occupation forces launched a massive attack on Ukraine with drones. In total, the occupiers launched 102 drones of various types, most of which were destroyed by air defense forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> As reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the attack began on the evening of May 6. Russia launched Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas drones and Parody simulator drones from the territory of the Russian Federation and temporarily occupied territories.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;As of 08:00, air defenses have shot down or suppressed 92 enemy UAVs,&#8221; the military said.<\/p>\n<p> Aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, mobile fire groups, electronic warfare units, and unmanned systems units were involved in repelling the attack.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, the Air Force reported that eight strike drones were hit at six locations. Debris from downed drones also fell in several places. Information about the consequences of the attacks is being clarified.<\/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, May 7, Russian occupation forces launched a massive attack on Ukraine with drones. In total, the occupiers launched 102 drones of various types, most of which were destroyed by air defense forces. As reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the attack began on the evening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1023756,"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-1390745","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\/1390745","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=1390745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}