Air defense forces shoot down 67 attack UAVs, one guided missile – AFU Air Force
On the night of September 30, 2024 (from 19:00 on September 29 to 08:00 on September 30), the enemy struck Ukraine with missiles of various types and attack UAVs. In total, the radio technical troops of the Air Force detected and escorted 76 enemy air attack vehicles, the AFU reported on Monday morning.
In particular, among the enemy's air targets were found: one Iskander-M ballistic missile from the occupied Crimea; one X-59/69 guided aviation missile from the airspace of Zaporizhia region; one X-31P anti-radar missile from the airspace over the Black Sea; 73 Shahed type attack UAVs from Kursk regions, Yeysk, Orel (Russia).
As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, one X-59/69 guided aviation missile and 67 enemy attack UAVs of the Shahed type were shot down in Kyiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Poltava, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv regions.
The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units and mobile fire groups of the Air Forces and the Defense Forces of Ukraine.