That is according to a statement of the Air Force Command on its official page on Facebook.
“On October 18, the forces and means of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down 12 aerial targets. In Kherson region, around 09:00, a unit of the Kherson anti-aircraft missile brigade of the Air Command South shot down a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft. In addition, soldiers of the Air Command South destroyed five Shahed-136 kamikaze drones overnight,” the statement reads.
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As the Air Force Command notes, during Russia’s missile attack from the Black Sea, anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Command East shot down four Kalibr cruise missiles and one kamikaze drone. Anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Command Center destroyed a Kh-101/X-555 cruise missile.
Eaer Ukraine’s Air Force Command reported, that in the afternoon of Monday, October 17, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down 8 Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones and two Kalibr cruise missiles.
"Eight Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones were destroyed around 21:00 on October 17 in the zone of the Center Air Command," the Air Force Command posted on Monday evening.
The Command clarified that six of these loitering ammunition were shot down by fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units and mobile fire groups of MANPADS. Two more Shahed-136s were shot down by anti-aircraft gunners of the Ground Forces.
"At about 15:00, during a missile attack from the Black Sea, the air defense of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down two Kalibr cruise missiles," the Air Force noted.
As Ukraine’s Ukrinform New Agency reports, 20 civilians were killed and 22 more were injured in Ukraine due to the armed aggression of the russian federation on October 17.
As Defense Express reported, the first of the four German IRIS-T air defense systems is already on combat duty in the South of Ukraine. We also wrote on How IRIS-T Can Bolster Ukraine’s Air Defense.
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