Missile attack on Ukraine: the Air Force revealed how many enemy targets they shot down
Date: 2024-09-02 Author: Кирило Загоруйко Categories: WAR
On the night of September 2, 2024, Russian occupiers launched a missile attack on the Kyiv, Sumy and Kharkov regions, using ballistic, cruise and anti-aircraft guided missiles, and also attacked with Shahed-type strike UAVs from the southern direction.
As reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the radio-technical troops of the Armed Forces detected and tracked 58 air targets - 35 missiles of various types and 23 strike UAVs:
16 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles from the Bryansk, Voronezh and Kursk regions - Russian Federation;
14 X-101 cruise missiles from Tu-95MS aircraft from the airspace of the Volgograd region;
4 S-300/S-400 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation;
1 missile of an unspecified type from the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation;
23 "Shahed-131/136" attack UAVs from Primorsko-Akhtarsk - Russian Federation.
"As a result of combat operations by units of the anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare systems of the Air Force, as well as crews of the mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, the following were shot down: 9 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles; 13 Kh-101 cruise missiles; 20 Shahed-131/136 strike UAVs," the report says.
In addition, as a result of active counteraction by the Defense Forces of Ukraine, one Kh-101 cruise missile and three strike UAVs did not reach their targets and were locally lost. Information on them is being clarified, the PS notes.
Combat operations were conducted in the Kyiv, Kharkov, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Nikolaev and Zaporizhia regions.
