On the night of 20 June, the Russian military attacked Ukraine using 9 missiles of various types and 27 attack UAVs. The defenders of the sky shot down 5 missiles and 27 Shaheds.
According to the Commander of the Air Force of Ukraine Mykola Oleshchuk, the Russian army attacked critical infrastructure facilities. The main direction of the attack was eastern Ukraine, in particular the Dnipropetrovsk Region.
The Russian military launched at night:
- four X-101/X-555 cruise missiles from Tu-95 MS strategic aircraft (launch area - airspace over the Caspian Sea);
- three Iskander-M ballistic missiles (from the Voronezh Region - Russia);
- two X-59 guided missiles (from the airspace over the Sea of Azov);
- 27 Shahed-131/136 strike UAVs (launch area - Primorsko-Akhtarsk - Russia).
32 air targets were shot down as a result of the anti-aircraft battle:
- four X-101/X-555 cruise missiles;
- one X-59 guided missile;
- 27 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs.
Air defence was deployed in Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk, Mykolayiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Poltava and Vinnytsya Regions.
