Overnight, air defense forces shot down six Kalibr missiles and one Banderole missile
On the night of September 12, Russian forces attacked Ukraine using ballistic and cruise missiles, air-to-ground guided missiles, and 129 attack drones.
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Russians used Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, launched from the Voronezh and Rostov regions of the Russian Federation, as well as from the temporarily occupied Crimea. From the Black Sea, the enemy fired eight sea-launched “Kalibr” cruise missiles. The enemy also launched six X-59/69 air-to-ground guided missiles from airspace over the Black Sea.
In addition, Russian forces launched 129 Shahed-type attack drones, about half of which were jet-powered, as well as S8000 “Banderol” drones and “Parodia” decoy drones.
Air defense forces managed to shoot down:
- 6 "Kalibr" cruise missiles;
- 1 S8000 “Banderol”;
- 2 X-59/69 guided air-to-ground missiles;
- 101 enemy UAVs of the Shahed and Gerber types, as well as other types of drones.
This was reported by the Ukrainian Air Force Command.
As a reminder, on the night of September 12, Russian forces fired Kalibr missiles at a high-rise building in Odesa.
In the Black Sea near Odesa, two Azerbaijani sailors were killed on September 9 as a result of a drone attack on the Somali-flagged tugboat TEDY.
In Odesa, a Russian attack on September 10 damaged warehouse buildings belonging to a volunteer organization where humanitarian aid and essential supplies were stored.
