On the night of 12 June, the Russian army launched an attack with missiles and attack UAVs. They used 30 ground- and air-launched missiles in the attack.
The defenders managed to shoot down 29 targets. This was reported by Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk.
The Russian military used:
- four X-101/X-555 cruise missiles from Tu-95 MS strategic aircraft (launch area - Russian Saratov Region)
- Iskander-M ballistic missile (from the territory of Crimea);
- X-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile (from the airspace of the Russian Tambov Region)
- 24 Shahed-131/136 strike UAVs (launch area - Russian Yeysk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk).
"Anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force, mobile firing groups and electronic warfare equipment of the Ukrainian Defence Forces were involved in repelling the enemy air attack," Oleshchuk said.
As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, 29 air targets were shot down:
- an X-47M2 "Kinzhal" aerial ballistic missile
- four X-101/X-555 cruise missiles
- 24 Shahed-131/136 strike UAVs
Thus, only the Iskander-M failed to be shot down.
Air defences were operating in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Poltava, Kharkiv, and Vinnytsya Regions.
