According to preliminary data, the radio engineering troops of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine detected and escorted 210 enemy air targets – 120 missiles and 90 UAVs, the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
‘On the night of 17 November 2024 (from 20.00 on 16 November), the Russian occupiers launched a massive combined attack on the energy sector facilities of Ukraine with missiles of various types of air, land and sea-based missiles, as well as Shahed-type attack UAVs,’ the statement said.
The following missiles were launched in Ukraine:
The enemy used 7 Tu-160 and 16 Tu-95MS strategic bombers, 2 Tu-22M3 long-range bombers, 5 Su-34 fighter-bombers, 4 Su-27 fighters, 10 MiG-31K fighters, and 4 cruise missile carriers to carry out the air attack.
Throughout the night, all available air defence forces and means were deployed along the route of the missiles and drones. Aviation, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare equipment and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and the Defence Forces of Ukraine were involved.
According to preliminary data, as of 12.00, 144 air targets were shot down (102 missiles and 42 UAVs):
As a result of active counteraction by the Defence Forces, 41 enemy UAVs were lost in different regions of Ukraine, and two more UAVs flew towards Russia and the temporarily occupied territory.
Air defence was operating in almost all regions of Ukraine – Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Volyn and Lviv regions.