On the night of August 27, the Ukrainian Air Force detected and tracked 91 Russian aerial attack vehicles.
This was announced by the Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Mykola Oleshchuk.
The Russian forces struck Ukraine using various types of missiles and attack drones, including:
- Three Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles (launched from MiG-31K aircraft operating in the airspace of the Lipetsk region, Russia);
- One Iskander-M ballistic missile (from Crimea);
- One Iskander-K cruise missile (from the Voronezh region, Russia);
- Five Kh-101 cruise missiles (from Tu-95MS bombers operating in the airspace of the Volgograd region, Russia);
- 81 Shahed-type attack drones (from Yeisk and Kursk regions, Russia).
As of 9:00 AM, due to the combat efforts of Ukrainian air defense, the following were shot down:
- 5 Kh-101 cruise missiles;
- 60 Shahed-131/136 attack drones.
Ten enemy drones were lost from the radar, likely crashing within Ukraine's territory, one crossed the border into Belarus, and about ten others remain in Ukraine's airspace. Combat operations are ongoing.
To repel the attack, aviation, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare systems, and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces were deployed.
Active combat took place in most regions of the country, including Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Vinnytsia, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Kirovohrad regions.
