{"id":1418172,"date":"2026-07-16T09:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukrainian-special-forces-destroyed-a-russian-air-defense-system-tor-worth-25-million\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:57:07","slug":"ukrainian-special-forces-destroyed-a-russian-air-defense-system-tor-worth-25-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukrainian-special-forces-destroyed-a-russian-air-defense-system-tor-worth-25-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian special forces destroyed a Russian air defense system \u201cTor\u201d worth $25 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fighters from the National Guard&#8217;s Omega Special Operations Center destroyed a Russian Tor anti-aircraft missile system worth about $25 million. The strike used a Hornet kamikaze drone, which is thousands of times cheaper than its target.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1346903786901071?locale=uk_UA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by the Omega Special Purpose Center.<\/p>\n<p> According to the military, the Russian occupiers were hoping to strengthen their air defense in the Luhansk direction by deploying additional Tor systems there. However, Ukrainian special forces discovered and hit one of these systems.<\/p>\n<p> The strike was carried out by fighters of the 4th separate detachment of the Central Military District &#8220;Omega&#8221; using a Hornet kamikaze drone.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Special forces struck the enemy air defense system&#8217;s firing point using a Hornet kamikaze drone, the cost of which is 5,000 times less than the target itself,&#8221; Omega noted.<\/p>\n<p> The unit also released a video recording the moment the Russian anti-aircraft missile system was hit. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F1346903786901071%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=380&#038;t=0\" width=\"380\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/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>Fighters from the National Guard&#8217;s Omega Special Operations Center destroyed a Russian Tor anti-aircraft missile system worth about $25 million. The strike used a Hornet kamikaze drone, which is thousands of times cheaper than its target. This was reported by the Omega Special Purpose Center. According to the military, the Russian occupiers were hoping to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1418144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,77303],"class_list":["post-1418172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-good-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418172","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=1418172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1418144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}