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Air defence downs 14 Shahed drones during Russian overnight attack on Ukraine

An X-22 cruise missile failed to reach its target and crashed in Zaporizhzhya Region in the open. 

Air defence downs 14 Shahed drones during Russian overnight attack on Ukraine
Photo: Southern Defence Forces

Between 20:00 on 21 November and 03:00 on 22 November, the Russians attacked from the southeast (Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Russia) with 14 Shahed UAVs and an X-22 cruise missile from a Tu22M3 aircraft from the same direction, according to the Air Force Command. 

"As a result of combat operations, the Air Force, in cooperation with the air defence of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard, destroyed all 14 enemy Shahed-131/136 drones," the statement said. 

Units of mobile firing groups, fighter aircraft and anti-aircraft missile units in Dnipro, Zaporizhzhya, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsya and Khmelnytskyy Regions were involved in repelling the air attack.

An X-22 cruise missile missed its target and landed in Zaporizhzhya Region in the open. The blast wave damaged private houses. Preliminary, there were no casualties. 

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