{"id":1396787,"date":"2026-05-24T11:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-launched-90-missiles-and-600-drones-at-ukraine-including-the-oreshnik\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T11:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:04:31","slug":"russia-launched-90-missiles-and-600-drones-at-ukraine-including-the-oreshnik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-launched-90-missiles-and-600-drones-at-ukraine-including-the-oreshnik\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia launched 90 missiles and 600 drones at Ukraine, including the Oreshnik."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"234\"><strong>On the night of May 24, Russian forces launched one of the largest air attacks on Ukraine, using 90 missiles of various types and 600 drones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-start\"> The Ukrainian Air Force <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/62647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"294\" data-end=\"414\"> Kyiv was the main target of the attack. Ukrainian radio-technical forces detected a total of 690 airborne attack weapons.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"416\" data-end=\"438\"> Among the missiles launched: <\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"439\" data-end=\"722\"><\/p>\n<li data-section-id=\"15nqr37\" data-start=\"439\" data-end=\"536\"> one medium-range ballistic missile from the Kapustin Yar area &#8211; we are talking about the Oreshnik missile;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-section-id=\"1u8prdg\" data-start=\"537\" data-end=\"582\"> two Kh-47M2 &#8220;Kinzhal&#8221; aeroballistic missiles;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-section-id=\"18zh94i\" data-start=\"583\" data-end=\"626\"> three 3M22 Zircon anti-ship missiles;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-section-id=\"1oqsasr\" data-start=\"627\" data-end=\"669\"> 30 Iskander-M\/S-400 ballistic missiles;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-section-id=\"14u78a1\" data-start=\"670\" data-end=\"722\"> 54 cruise missiles Kh-101, Iskander-K and Kalibr.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"724\" data-end=\"885\"> The Russians also used 600 drones of various types, including the Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas, the Banderol loitering munitions, and the Parodiya drone imitators.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"887\" data-end=\"1055\"> Aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, unmanned aerial systems, and mobile fire teams of the Ukrainian Defense Forces were deployed to repel the attack.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1057\" data-end=\"1122\"> As of 09:30, air defense forces destroyed or suppressed 604 air targets: <\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"1123\" data-end=\"1220\"><\/p>\n<li data-section-id=\"u8xezs\" data-start=\"1123\" data-end=\"1165\"> 11 Iskander-M\/S-400 ballistic missiles;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-section-id=\"1bzopjf\" data-start=\"1166\" data-end=\"1186\"> 44 cruise missiles;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li data-section-id=\"1q718ns\" data-start=\"1187\" data-end=\"1220\"> 549 drones of different types.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1222\" data-end=\"1323\"> According to preliminary data, another 19 Russian missiles failed to reach their targets. Information on these missiles is being clarified.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1325\" data-end=\"1427\"> Meanwhile, 16 missiles and 51 attack drones hit 54 locations. Debris from downed UAVs fell in another 23 locations.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1429\" data-end=\"1549\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> The Air Force added that the attack is ongoing \u2013 several enemy drones still remain in Ukrainian airspace.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1429\" data-end=\"1549\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/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 May 24, Russian forces launched one of the largest air attacks on Ukraine, using 90 missiles of various types and 600 drones. The Ukrainian Air Force reported this. Kyiv was the main target of the attack. Ukrainian radio-technical forces detected a total of 690 airborne attack weapons. Among the missiles launched: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1396781,"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-1396787","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\/1396787","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=1396787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1396781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}