Air defense shot down 5 cruise missiles and 48 attack UAVs out of 53 - Air Force. INFOGRAPHICS
On the night of 7 June, the enemy attacked Ukraine's critical infrastructure with strategic aviation - Tu-95MS bombers and Shahed-131/136 strike UAVs.
According to Censor.NET, this was reported by the commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykola Oleshchuk.
A total of 5 Kh-101/Kh-555 air-launched cruise missiles and 53 Shahed-131/136 strike UAVs were used.
"The air attack was repelled by mobile firing groups of the Ukrainian Defence Forces, fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft missile and electronic warfare units of the Air Force," the statement said.
As a result of the air combat, 48 attack UAVs and 5 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles were shot down in the Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Odesa, Kharkiv, Kyiv and Khmelnytskyi regions.