{"id":1453018,"date":"2026-10-15T08:25:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-launched-580-drones-and-kh-59-missiles-over-ukraine-how-many-targets-did-the-air-defense-shoot-down\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:25:51","slug":"russia-launched-580-drones-and-kh-59-missiles-over-ukraine-how-many-targets-did-the-air-defense-shoot-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-launched-580-drones-and-kh-59-missiles-over-ukraine-how-many-targets-did-the-air-defense-shoot-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia launched 580 drones and Kh-59 missiles over Ukraine: how many targets did the air defense shoot down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of Thursday, October 15, Russia attacked Ukraine with 580 strike drones and two Kh-59 guided aircraft missiles. Air defense forces shot down or suppressed 536 drones, but recorded hits at 31 locations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/86810\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare and unmanned systems units, as well as mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<p> According to the military, the Russians launched Shahed and Gerber strike UAVs and Parody simulator drones from the territory of the Russian Federation, temporarily occupied Donetsk and Crimea. The enemy also launched two Kh-59 missiles from the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p> As of 08:00, Ukrainian air defenses had shot down or suppressed 536 drones of various types. At the same time, hits by Russian air attack vehicles were recorded at 31 locations, and the fall of downed targets and their debris at another 11.<\/p>\n<p> At the time of publication of the report, the attack was ongoing, with enemy drones remaining in the airspace. The Air Force urged citizens to follow safety rules.<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">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 Thursday, October 15, Russia attacked Ukraine with 580 strike drones and two Kh-59 guided aircraft missiles. Air defense forces shot down or suppressed 536 drones, but recorded hits at 31 locations. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The air attack was repelled by aviation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":965560,"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-1453018","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\/1453018","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=1453018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}