{"id":1420305,"date":"2026-07-22T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-launched-a-ballistic-missile-air-missiles-and-216-drones-at-ukraine-what-was-shot-down-by-air-defense\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:38:00","slug":"russia-launched-a-ballistic-missile-air-missiles-and-216-drones-at-ukraine-what-was-shot-down-by-air-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-launched-a-ballistic-missile-air-missiles-and-216-drones-at-ukraine-what-was-shot-down-by-air-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia launched a ballistic missile, air missiles and 216 drones at Ukraine: what was shot down by air defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of Wednesday, July 22, Russian occupation forces carried out another massive air attack on Ukraine. The occupiers used a ballistic missile, guided missiles, and over two hundred strike drones. Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed or suppressed 207 air targets, but hits were also recorded.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GeneralStaff.ua\/posts\/pfbid0yy5qJKYD5SdNqybgLhSzBs8X25fNBiFJTNE7NHQyydFZwqgkg15gJnE2Q5tfGEKQl?locale=uk_UA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, Unmanned Systems Forces, and mobile fire groups were involved in repelling the attack.<\/p>\n<p> According to the military, the Russian army launched one Iskander-M ballistic missile, three Kh-59\/69 guided aircraft missiles, and 216 drones of various types, including Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas strike drones, and simulator drones. The launches were carried out from Russian territory and temporarily occupied Crimea.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;As of 08:30, air defenses have shot down or suppressed three Kh-59\/69 guided aircraft missiles and 204 enemy drones,&#8221; the Air Force reported.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, the military noted that it was not possible to completely avoid the consequences of the attack. According to preliminary data, one ballistic missile and 12 attack drones reached their targets in 12 locations. In addition, fragments of downed air targets fell in seven more places.<\/p>\n<p> The Air Force emphasized 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 Wednesday, July 22, Russian occupation forces carried out another massive air attack on Ukraine. The occupiers used a ballistic missile, guided missiles, and over two hundred strike drones. Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed or suppressed 207 air targets, but hits were also recorded. This was reported by the Air Force of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1248612,"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-1420305","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\/1420305","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=1420305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1248612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}