Portal Ukraine Kyiv February 26, 2024
The Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed 13 kamikaze drones and a Kh-59 guided missile on the night of February 21.
This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Telegram.
“On the night of February 21, 2024, the occupiers attacked with an S-300 anti-aircraft guided missile (Rostov Region), a Kh-59 guided aircraft missile (Belgorod Region), 4 Kh-22 cruise missiles (Rostov Region) and 19 Shahed attack drones (Primorsko-Akhtarsk – Russia),” the post reads.
It was determined that as a result of combat operations, one Kh-59 guided missile was destroyed in the Poltava region and 13 out of 19 were martyred in the Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhia and Donetsk regions.
The Air Force stressed that “some of the six drones that did not strike the enemy did not reach their targets.”
Anti-aircraft missile units, mobile firing groups and electronic warfare equipment of the Ukrainian Defense Forces took part in repelling the air attack.