“On the night of September 16, the enemy attacked Ukraine with 56 attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type, anti-aircraft defense destroyed 53 of them, three more were lost in location. Source: press service of the command of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Details: From 20.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
On the night of September 16, the enemy attacked Ukraine with 56 attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type, anti-aircraft defense destroyed 53 of them, three more were lost in location.
Source: press service of the command of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Details: From 8:00 p.m. on September 15 to 6:00 a.m. on the 16th, the radio engineering troops of the Air Force detected and escorted 56 strike aircraft from Kursk and Yeisk (RF).
The main direction of the enemy’s attack this time was in the Kyiv region.
The air attack was repulsed by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
As a result of anti-aircraft combat, 53 enemy attack UAVs were shot down in the Kyiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Poltava, Sumy, Zaporizhzhya, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Cherkasy regions.
It is noted that three more enemy drones were locally lost in several regions, previously without casualties or consequences.
We will remind: On the night of September 16, Kyiv experienced the eighth air attack by the Russian occupiers in the first half of this month.