On the night of 26 October 2024, the enemy attacked Ukraine with missiles of various types, Shahed-type attack UAVs and drones of an unspecified type, say command of the Air Force of the AFU.
Radio-technical troops of the Air Forces detected and escorted 98 means of enemy air attack:
- 3 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles (from the territory of Crimea);
- 2 X-59 guided missiles (from the airspace in the Bryansk region);
- 2 missiles of unknown type (from Belgorod Oblast – Russian Federation);
- 91 enemy UAVs (launch areas: Kursk, Orel – Russian Federation).
With missiles, the enemy hit civilian infrastructure facilities in Sumyshchyna and Dnipro. Unfortunately, there are casualties among the civilian population.
As for attack UAVs, as a result of the anti-air combat, as of 12.00 noon it was confirmed that 44 enemy UAVs were shot down in Kirovograd, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Vinnitsa, Zhitomir, Khmelnitsky and Kursk regions.
One UAV left the airspace in the direction of Belarus. 44 Russian drones have been locally lost, another 1 enemy UAV is in Ukrainian airspace.
The air attack is reflected by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Air Force and Defence Forces.