Ukraine's air defence downs 3 Iskander missiles and 23 drones overnight

The Russian forces attacked Ukraine with ground-based missiles and attack UAVs on the night of 17-18 April. Ukraine's air defence forces have shot down three Iskander-K cruise missiles and 23 Shahed attack UAVs. Source: Ukraine's Air Force on Telegram

Quote: "Early reports indicate that the Air Force air surveillance troops detected and escorted 43 enemy air attack vehicles - six missiles of various types and 37 attack UAVs (decoy drones of other types), including one Iskander-M ballistic missile (launch area: temporarily occupied Crimea); five Iskander-K cruise missiles (launch areas: temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia Oblast and Crimea); 37 Shahed attack UAVs and other types of drones (launch areas: Russian cities of Millerovo and Kursk)."

Details: Aircraft, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units and mobile fire groups from Ukraine's defence forces were involved in repelling the attack. As of 09:30, 26 airborne targets were confirmed to have been shot down: three Iskander-K cruise missiles and 23 Shahed attack UAVs. Ten Russian decoy drones disappeared from radar.

Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Kyiv oblasts came under attack.

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