Russia attacks Ukraine with 42 targets overnight: air defence downs 7 cruise missiles and 22 attack drones
Russian forces bombarded Ukraine with air- and ground-launched missiles and Shahed-type attack UAVs on the night of 3-4 September. Ukrainian air defence managed to shoot down 29 air targets. Source: Ukraine's Air Force on Telegram
Quote: "In total, air surveillance troops from the Air Force detected and monitored 42 air targets: two Kh-47 M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles (launched by MiG-31K aircraft from Russia's Tula Oblast); two Kh-22 cruise missiles (launched by Tu-22M3 aircraft from the airspace over the Black Sea); six Kh-101 cruise missiles (launched by Tu-95MS aircraft from Russia's Volgograd Oblast); three Iskander-K cruise missiles (launched from temporarily occupied Crimea); and 29 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs (launched from Russia's Kursk Oblast)."
Advertisement:Details: It is reported that aircraft, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units and mobile firing groups of the Air Force and the Ukrainian defence forces were repelling the Russian air attack.
As a result of combat efforts, 29 air targets were shot down:
- Four Kh-101 cruise missiles;
- Three Iskander-K cruise missiles;
- 22 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs.
Six attack drones were lost on radar, as they were presumably jammed by electronic warfare, and one flew to Belarus.
Advertisement:Air defence responded to the attack in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Volyn, Ternopil, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Poltava and Sumy oblasts.
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