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There were 42 air targets. Air Force reveals how many missiles and drones were downed tonight

There were 42 air targets. Air Force reveals how many missiles and drones were downed tonight

On the night of September 4, the russians attacked Ukraine with air and ground-based missiles, as well as with Shahed type UAVs. Air defense managed to shoot down 22 UAVs and 7 out of 13 missiles.

This was reported by the Air Force Command.

In total, the Air Force detected 42 air targets:

• 2 Kh-47 M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles from MiG-31K aircraft from the airspace of the Tula Oblast - russian federation;
• 2 Kh-22 cruise missiles from Tu-22M3 aircraft from the airspace over the Black Sea;
• 6 Kh-101 cruise missiles from Tu-95MS aircraft from the airspace of the Volgograd Oblast - russian federation;
• 3 Iskander-K cruise missiles from the territory of the occupied Crimea;
• 29 attack UAVs Shahed-131/136 (launch areas of the Kursk Oblast - russian federation).

Aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and the Defense Forces of Ukraine were involved in repelling the enemy's air attack.

As a result of anti-aircraft combat, 29 air targets were shot down:

• 4 Kh-101 cruise missiles;
• 3 Iskander-K cruise missiles;
• 22 attack UAVs Shahed-131/136.

Six attack drones were lost in location (presumably suppressed by electronic warfare devices), one flew to Belarus.

Anti-aircraft defense worked in the Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Volyn, Ternopil, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Poltava and Sumy Regions.

We will remind you that the russian federation attacked Lviv and Kryvyi Rih at night. In Lviv, 7 people are known to have been killed, including three children. Five people were injured in Kryvyi Rih. There is destruction of houses and civil infrastructure.