Tuesday21 January 2025
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On the night of January 20, Russia launched a ballistic and drone attack, with air defense successfully intercepting 93 drones.

On the night of January 20, Russian occupying forces launched an attack on Ukraine using 141 strike drones. Air defense systems intercepted 93 of these drones, while 47 decoy drones were lost due to location issues, and two returned to the aggressor's territory.
В ночь на 20 января Россия провела атаку с использованием баллистических ракет и дронов, при этом ПВО успешно сбила 93 беспилотника.

Source: Air Forces on social media

Details: Since 19:00 on January 19, the enemy launched an attack with 141 strike drones of the Shahed type and various types of imitation drones from five directions: Millerovo, Orel, Bryansk, Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk - RF, and also used a ballistic missile "Iskander-M" from the Kursk region of the RF against the Sumy region.

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The air assault was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Air Forces, and the Defense Forces of Ukraine.

As of 08:00, the Air Forces confirm the downing of 93 strike drones of the Shahed type and other types of drones in the Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Kherson, and Donetsk regions.

47 enemy imitation drones were lost in terms of location (without negative consequences), two of which flew back to Russia.