{"id":1400290,"date":"2026-06-02T09:29:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-russian-federation-attacked-ukraine-with-729-targets-how-the-ukrainian-air-defense-worked\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T09:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:29:38","slug":"the-russian-federation-attacked-ukraine-with-729-targets-how-the-ukrainian-air-defense-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-russian-federation-attacked-ukraine-with-729-targets-how-the-ukrainian-air-defense-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian Federation attacked Ukraine with 729 targets: how the Ukrainian air defense worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of Tuesday, June 2, Russian occupation forces launched a massive combined attack on Ukraine, using dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones. The main target of the strike was Kyiv, but explosions also occurred in Dnipro, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Poltava region, and other regions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/63655\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> the Air Force.<\/p>\n<p> A total of 729 air attack vehicles were recorded, including 73 missiles of various types and 656 drones.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The main direction of the strike is Kyiv,&#8221; the military reported.<\/p>\n<p> Aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups, and unmanned systems operators were involved in repelling the attack.<\/p>\n<p> According to preliminary data, Ukrainian air defense destroyed or suppressed 642 air targets.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;As of 08:30, air defenses have shot down or suppressed 40 missiles and 602 enemy drones of various types,&#8221; the Air Force noted.<\/p>\n<p> In particular, Ukrainian defenders shot down 11 Iskander-M ballistic missiles, 26 Kh-101 cruise missiles, and three Kalibr cruise missiles.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, some of the air targets managed to reach their targets. According to preliminary information, 30 ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles and 33 strike drones were hit at 38 locations. In addition, debris from downed drones fell at another 15 sites.<\/p>\n<p> The Air Force noted that information about the consequences of the attack 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 Tuesday, June 2, Russian occupation forces launched a massive combined attack on Ukraine, using dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones. The main target of the strike was Kyiv, but explosions also occurred in Dnipro, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Poltava region, and other regions. This is reported by the Air Force. A total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1278810,"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-1400290","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\/1400290","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=1400290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1278810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}