Air Defense eliminates 42 enemy Shahed drones, one guided missile overnight

10:38, 19.09.2024 1 min read

The Ukrainian Air Defense eliminated 42 of the 42 enemy Shaheds drones that attacked Ukraine and one guided missile X-59/69, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.

"On the night of September 19, 2024, the radio-technical troops of the Air Force detected and accompanied 46 enemy attack drones," the report says.

It is reported that the occupiers struck Kharkiv region with three S-300/S-400 anti-aircraft guided missiles from Belgorod region, one X-59/69 guided air missile from the airspace of Zaporizhia region, as well as 42 Shahed-type strike UAVs (launch areas: Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk - Russia).

"As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, all 42 strike UAVs were shot down. Also, a X-59/69 guided air missile was shot down in the eastern direction," the Air Force command clarified.

The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.

Air defense operated in Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions.