Air Force: shot down 28 Shaheds and four Kh-59/69 missiles at night

On the night of September 25, the Ukrainian military shot down 28 of the 32 Shahed attack drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine, and four Kh-59/69 guided air missiles, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. According to the report, four more drones were “locally lost” in several regions of Ukraine.

“On the night of September 25, 2024, the Russian occupiers attacked Kharkiv Oblast with an anti-aircraft guided missile S-300 and three missiles of an unknown type, Odesa Oblast – with four guided air missiles Kh-59/69 from the airspace of the Black Sea, as well as 32 attack UAVs of the Shahed type (launch areas: Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk – RF),” the Air Force reported.

According to the report, air defense was operating in Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Poltava, Mykolaiv, Odesa and Kherson regions.

The forces of the Russian Federation regularly attack Ukrainian regions with various types of weapons – attack UAVs, missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, anti-aircraft missiles.

The leadership of Russia denies that the Russian army during a full-scale war inflicts targeted strikes on the civilian infrastructure of the cities and villages of Ukraine, killing the civilian population and destroying hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy and water supply facilities.

The Ukrainian authorities and international organizations qualify these strikes as war crimes by the Russian Federation and emphasize that they are purposeful in nature.