{"id":316973,"date":"2025-08-04T11:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/316973\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:08:11","slug":"ukraines-air-defence-downs-161-russian-drones-with-one-hit-and-debris-falling-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/316973\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s air defence downs 161 Russian drones, with one hit and debris falling recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Ukrainian Air Force on social media<\/p>\n<p>Russia launched a large-scale aerial attack on Ukraine using 162 Shahed-type attack drones, various types of decoy drones and one Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile on the night of 3-4 August. Ukrainian air defence forces have destroyed 161 Russian drones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kpszsu\/posts\/pfbid05USGQ1uno6cwbX2f5xJZHiRczxKNuaoUT2hPyoJc74TXjTYXU2X7mxtijkA96kBal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukrainian Air Force on social media<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> Beginning at 19:30 on 3 August, the Russian attack was launched from multiple directions, including Millerovo, Kursk, Bryansk and Oryol in Russia, as well as Hvardiiske in temporarily occupied Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In the morning, the Russians also launched one Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile.<\/p>\n<p>As of 11:30, early estimates indicate Ukrainian air defence forces had downed or suppressed 161 Russian Shahed-type UAVs and various drone decoys over the northern, southern, eastern and central parts of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>One drone hit was recorded, as well as debris falling in nine locations in Odesa and Kyiv oblasts.<\/p>\n<p>To repel the air attack, Ukraine\u2019s defence forces deployed aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare units, drone units and mobile fire groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Ukrainian Air Force on social media Russia launched a large-scale aerial attack on Ukraine using 162 Shahed-type&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[28829,2000,299,71067,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-316973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-air-defence","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-shahed-drone","12":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114970185499618616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}