{"id":1435153,"date":"2026-09-03T09:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-163-drones-how-many-did-air-defense-neutralize\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:03:06","slug":"russia-attacked-ukraine-with-163-drones-how-many-did-air-defense-neutralize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-attacked-ukraine-with-163-drones-how-many-did-air-defense-neutralize\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacked Ukraine with 163 drones: how many did air defense neutralize?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of September 3, Russia attacked Ukraine with 163 strike drones of various types. Air defense forces shot down and suppressed 135 enemy targets, but recorded hits at 15 locations and debris falling at four more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> The attack began at 6:00 PM on September 2. Russian forces used Shahed-type drones, about half of which were jet-powered, as well as S8000 Banderol, Gerbera, and Parody simulator drones.<\/p>\n<p> The launches were carried out from the areas of Millerovoye, Orel, temporarily occupied Donetsk, and Hvardiyske in occupied Crimea.<\/p>\n<p> The air attack was repelled by fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare and unmanned systems units, as well as mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> As of 08:30, the air defense system had destroyed or suppressed 135 enemy UAVs, including Shahed, including jet-powered, Gerber, and other types of drones.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, airstrikes were recorded at 15 locations. Debris from downed drones fell at four more locations.<\/p>\n<p> At the time of the report, the attack was still ongoing, with enemy UAVs remaining in the airspace.<\/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 September 3, Russia attacked Ukraine with 163 strike drones of various types. Air defense forces shot down and suppressed 135 enemy targets, but recorded hits at 15 locations and debris falling at four more. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The attack began at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1435161,"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-1435153","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\/1435153","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=1435153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1435161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}