On the night of August 21, the Russian occupiers attacked Ukraine with two Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles from the Voronezh Region of the Russian Federation and an X-59/X-69 guided missile from the airspace of the Kursk Region.
This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Russians also launched 69 Shahed attack drones at our country - the drones were launched from Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Yeysk and Kursk.
“In total, the Air Force's radio-technical units detected and escorted 72 air targets,” the statement said.
As a result of anti-aircraft combat, 51 air targets were shot down:
one X-59/X-69 guided missile and 50 Shahed-131/136 strike UAVs within Khmelnytskyy, Poltava, Cherkasy, Kyiv, Vinnytsya, Ivano-Frankivsk, Dnipro, Mykolayiv, Odesa, Kherson, Donetsk, Kirovohrad, Sumy and Chernihiv Regions.
Another 16 Russian UAVs were lost in the area, presumably falling under the influence of electronic countermeasures.
In addition, Russian attack drone was spotted crossing the state border with the Republic of Belarus in Chernihiv Region, and another Russian UAV returned to the Belgorod Region of the Russian Federation.
Russian air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units of the Air Force and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
