On the night of 24 July, the Russian army attacked Ukraine with five air-launched missiles and 180 drones of various types. Air defences neutralised 164 targets: four missiles and 160 drones. A missile and 14 UAVs hit nine locations, and debris fell at eight other sites.
This was reported by the Air Force.
“On the night of 24 July (from 18:00 on 23 July), the enemy attacked with five Kh-59/69 guided air-launched missiles from airspace over the Black Sea and 180 Shahed-type strike UAVs (including jet-powered ones), as well as Gerbera and Italmas drones and Parodiya decoy drones, launched from the directions of Bryansk, Kursk, Oryol, Primorsko-Akhtarsk — Russia, Donetsk — temporarily occupied territory, Hvardiyske, Chauda — temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea,” they said.
The air attack was repelled by aircraft, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare and unmanned systems units, and mobile fire groups of Ukraine’s Defence Forces.
According to preliminary data, as of 08:00, air defences shot down and suppressed four Kh-59/69 guided air-launched missiles and 160 Russian UAVs of the Shahed, Gerbera and Italmas types, as well as drones of other types, in the north, south and east of the country.
As of the morning of 24 July, the attack is ongoing.