Russia launched a powerful attack with various missiles and drones: how many targets were shot down by the air defense

On the night of Friday, September 20, the Russian army attacked Donetsk region with three unspecified type missiles and Dnipropetrovsk region with a guided air missile Kh-59. The occupiers also launched 70 “Shahed” drones.

This was reported by the Command of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

"As a result of the air combat, 61 strike drones and one guided air missile Kh-59 were shot down. Due to the active countermeasures of the Defense Forces, nine enemy drones disappeared from the radars in several regions of Ukraine," the Air Forces reported.

Ukrainian air defense operated in Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Poltava, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Khmelnytskyi, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Kherson regions.

It should be noted that the Kh-59 missile was launched from the airspace of the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia region, while the “Shahed” drones were launched from the regions of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk and Yeysk.

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