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The Defense Forces shot down two Russian X-59/69 missiles and 69 kamikaze drones overnight

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The Defense Forces shot down two Russian X-59/69 missiles and 69 kamikaze drones overnight

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The Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down two Russian guided air missiles (Kh-59/69) and 69 Shahed-type strike drones that Russia used to attack Ukraine from the evening of September 27.

The Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported this on Telegram.

According to the report, from 7:00 PM on Friday, September 27, to 8:00 AM on Saturday, September 28, the radar troops of the Air Force detected and tracked 77 aerial attack weapons:

  • Two ballistic Iskander-M missiles from temporarily occupied Crimea;
  • Two guided air missiles (Kh-59/69) from the airspace over the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region;
  • 73 Shahed-type strike drones from the areas of Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Oryol, and Cape Chauda in Crimea.

Aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, and mobile fire teams of the Air Force and Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled the air attack.

As a result of the air battle, two Kh-59/69 missiles and 69 Shahed-type drones were shot down in the Kyiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Rivne, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odessa, and Mykolaiv regions.

One drone flew toward Russia, and three others were lost within Ukraine.

 

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