The enemy fired 210 air targets into Ukraine. How did the air defense cope? ᐉ UA-Football

On the night of November 17, 2024 (from 20.00 on November 16), the Russian occupiers carried out a massive combined attack on the facilities of the energy sector of Ukraine with various types of air, ground and sea-based missiles, as well as attack UAVs of the “Shahed” type.

In total, according to preliminary data, the radio technical troops of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces detected and escorted 210 enemy air targets – 120 missiles and 90 drones.

In particular, the following were launched:

• 1 hypersonic cruise missile 3M22 “Zircon”;
• 8 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles;
• 101 cruise missiles Kh-101, “Caliber”;
• 1 Iskander-M ballistic missile;
• 4 cruise/anti-radar missiles Kh-22/Kh-31P;
• 5 X-59/X-69 guided aircraft missiles;
• 90 attack UAVs/drones of unknown type.

The enemy involved in the air attack 7 strategic bombers Tu-160 and 16 Tu-95MS, 2 long-range bombers Tu-22M3, 5 Su-34 fighter-bombers, 4 Su-27 fighters, 10 MiG-31K fighters, 4 cruise missile carrier ships .

During the night, all available air defense forces and means worked along the route of missiles and drones. Aviation, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare equipment and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and Defense Forces of Ukraine were involved.

According to preliminary data, as of 12.00 there is information about the shooting down of 144 air targets – 102 missiles and 42 UAVs:

• 1 hypersonic ship-based missile 3M22 “Zircon”;
• 7 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles;
• 85 cruise missiles Kh-101, “Caliber”;
• 4 cruise/anti-radar missiles Kh-22/Kh-31P;
• 5 X-59/69 guided aircraft missiles;
• 42 attack UAVs/drones of unknown type (from the Kursk, Orel, Primorsko-Akhtarsk regions – Russian Federation).

As a result of the active opposition of the Defense Forces, 41 enemy “martyrs” were locally lost in different regions of Ukraine, two more drones flew towards Russia and the temporarily occupied territory.

Air defense worked in almost all regions of Ukraine – in Kyiv, Cherkassy, ​​Kirovograd, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkov, Poltava, Odessa, Nikolaev, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Vinnitsa, Khmelnytsky, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Volyn and Lviv regions .