Russia attack Ukraine with ballistic missile and drones at night: air defences down 93 UAVs
Pravda Ukraine
The Russians attacked Ukraine with 141 drones on the night of 19-20 January. Ukraine’s air defence has downed 93 drones and 47 decoy drones disappeared from radar, including two that returned to the Russia-controlled territory.
Source: Ukraine’s Air Force
Details: Starting at 19:00 on 19 January, the Russians launched 141 Shahed attack UAVs and decoy drones of various types from five directions: Millerovo, Oryol, Bryansk, Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk (Russia). They also fired an Iskander-M ballistic missile from Kursk Oblast targeting Sumy Oblast.
Aircraft, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units and mobile fire groups from Ukraine’s Air Force and the defence forces were involved in repelling the attack.
As of 08:00, the Air Force confirmed the downing of 93 Shahed attack drones and UAVs of other types within Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Kherson and Donetsk oblasts.
Out of 47 Russian decoy drones that disappeared from radar (causing no adverse effects), two returned to Russian territory.
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