On the night of 29 August, Ukraine's air defence shot down two guided missiles and 60 attack drones. The Russian army attacked Ukrainians with three X-59/69 guided missiles from the airspace of Kursk and Belgorod Regions, and two missiles from the same direction, the type of which is currently being identified.
Russians launched 74 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs from the areas of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk, and Yeysk, Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk said. Aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Air Force and Defence Forces were involved in repelling the air attack.
"As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, two X-59/69 guided missiles and 60 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs were shot down. Another 14 attack UAVs were lost locally (crashed) on the territory of Ukraine. Air defences were operating within Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Sumy and Donetsk Regions," he said.
- Debris fell in three districts of Kyiv, no one was injured.
- In Cherkasy, debris caught fire on the territory of an enterprise.