Air defence shoots down 21 Russian missiles during massive shelling of Ukraine

On 23 January, Russian troops launched a missile attack on Ukraine with cruise, ballistic, air and anti-aircraft guided missiles. The air defence forces shot down 21 Russian missiles. This was reported in the Air Force of the AFU.

In the night of 23 January 2024, the enemy launched a combined missile strike on Ukraine, using cruise, ballistic, aviation and anti-aircraft guided missiles, - stated in the message.

A total of 41 means of air attack by the Russians were recorded during the night, most of the missiles fired were ballistic missiles:

• 4 S-300/S-400 anti-aircraft guided missiles from Belgorod Oblast. RF - in the direction of Kharkiv region;
• 15 Kh-101/X-555/X-55 cruise missiles from six Tu-95MS strategic bombers (launch area - Engels, RF.);
• 8 Kh-22 missiles from Tu-22M3 bombers from Bryansk and Orel Regions (launch area - Engels, RF). Russian Federation - in the direction of Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts;
• 12 Iskander-M ballistic missiles (launch area - Belgorod and Voronezh Regions of the Russian Federation)
• 2 Kh-59 guided missiles from two Su-34 aircraft (launch area - Belgorod Region, Russian Federation).

As a result of the combat work of the Air Force in co-operation with the air defence of the Defence Forces, the following were destroyed:

• 15 Kh-101/x-555/X-55 cruise missiles;
• 5 Iskander-M ballistic missiles
• kh-59 guided aircraft missile.

It is important that not all enemy missiles that attacked along the ballistic trajectory reached their targets," the AFU Air Force stressed.