{"id":442058,"date":"2025-09-22T00:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/442058\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T00:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:17:34","slug":"ukraines-f-16s-crush-majority-of-russian-missiles-in-massive-overnight-strike-video-united24-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/442058\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s F-16s Crush Majority of\u00a0Russian Missiles in\u00a0Massive Overnight Strike, Video \u2014 UNITED24 Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s Air Force reported that F-16 fighter jets intercepted the majority of\u00a0Russian missiles launched during a\u00a0large-scale overnight attack on\u00a0September\u00a020.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Air Force\u2019s Telegram channel, the strikes involved both cruise missiles and drones. Ukrainian forces <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/42793\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> video footage showing the coordinated response of\u00a0surface-to-air missile systems, mobile air defense units, and F-16 pilots.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udca5  Ukraine&#8217;s Air Force showed the footage of Ukrainian F-16 pilots shooting down Russian targets on the night of September 19-20. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j9WZkaO1xu\">pic.twitter.com\/j9WZkaO1xu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UNITED24 Media (@United24media) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/United24media\/status\/1969660158583165398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe lion\u2019s share of\u00a0Kh-101 cruise missiles downed today were destroyed by\u00a0Ukrainian Fighting Falcons,\u201d the Air Force stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force confirmed that Russian forces launched a\u00a0combined total of\u00a0619\u00a0aerial threats against Ukraine, including 579\u00a0Shahed-type drones, 40\u00a0missiles of\u00a0various types, and ballistic projectiles. <\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian defenses neutralized 552\u00a0Shahed drones, two Iskander-M\/KN-23 ballistic missiles, and 29\u00a0Kh-101 cruise missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the interceptions, impacts and falling debris were recorded at\u00a0multiple sites. Missile and drone strikes hit residential areas in\u00a0Dnipro, where one person was killed and 36\u00a0were injured. <\/p>\n<p>Additional casualties were reported in\u00a0Khmelnytskyi region, where one person died and two were injured. Damage from strikes and debris was also confirmed in\u00a0Kyiv region and Mykolaiv.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Ukrainian Air Force <a href=\"https:\/\/united24media.com\/latest-news\/ukrainian-mirage-2000-downs-russian-kh-101-cruise-missile-in-first-combat-mission-6537\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that a\u00a0Mirage-2000 fighter jet intercepted a\u00a0Russian Kh-101 cruise missile during its first recorded combat mission. According to\u00a0the Air Force, the French-supplied aircraft, delivered in\u00a0early 2025, engaged the target with an\u00a0air-to-air missile, marking the debut of\u00a0Mirage 2000-5F jets in\u00a0Ukraine\u2019s defense operations.<\/p>\n<p><img data-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/651e859da3756d7bb9f0158d1143806e.jpeg\" data- alt=\"Directly support a drone unit\" width=\"1026\" height=\"577\" class=\"lazy\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/united24media.com\/static\/build\/img\/logo.qJ-S0EWo.svg\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"169\" height=\"16\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/u24app.gov.ua\/?utm_source=website-u24media&amp;utm_medium=banner2&amp;utm_campaign=september\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" class=\"u-link-overlay\">Directly support a drone unit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From donor to ally on the frontlines of combat<\/p>\n<p>\n                Related articles\n            <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s Air Force reported that F-16 fighter jets intercepted the majority of\u00a0Russian missiles launched during a\u00a0large-scale overnight attack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-442058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115245078569072099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442058","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=442058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}