On the night of August 27, 2024, the radio engineering troops of the Air Force detected and escorted 91 means of air attack of the enemy, the commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykola Oleschuk said.
“This night, the occupiers attacked Ukraine with missiles of various types and attack UAVs: 3 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles (from MiG-31K aircraft from the airspace of the Lipetsk region – Russian Federation); ballistic missile “Iskander-M” (from Crimea); cruise missile “Iskander-K” (from the Voronezh region – Russian Federation); 5 Kh-101 cruise missiles (from Tu-95MS bombers from the airspace of the Volgograd region – Russia); 81 attack UAVs of the “Shahed” type (from Yeysk and Kursk Oblasts – Russian Federation)”, – nOleschuk described in the Telegram channel.
As of 9:00 a.m., as a result of combat operations, air defense shot down five Kh-101 cruise missiles and 60 Shahed-131/136 type UAVs.
“Ten enemy drones were located (presumably crashed) on the territory of Ukraine, one crossed the border with Belarus, and about ten more are in the airspace of Ukraine. Combat work continues,” the commander noted.
He emphasized that aviation, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare equipment and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine were involved in repelling the enemy’s air attack.
“Combat work was conducted in most regions of the country: in Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhya, Khmelnytskyi, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Chernihiv and Kirovohrad regions,” added Oleschuk.
