During the night of April 18, 2025 (starting at 7:30 PM on April 17), Russian forces launched a strike on Ukraine using ground-launched missiles and attack UAVs.
According to preliminary data, the radio-technical units of the Air Force detected and tracked 43 enemy aerial threats — 6 missiles of various types and 37 attack UAVs (including decoy drones of other types), specifically:
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1 Iskander-M ballistic missile (launched from Crimea);
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5 Iskander-K cruise missiles (launched from temporarily occupied areas of Zaporizhzhia region and Crimea);
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37 Shahed-type attack UAVs and decoy drones of other types (launched from Millerovo and Kursk in Russia).
The air attack was repelled by Ukrainian Defense Forces using aviation, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare assets, and mobile fire teams.
As of 9:30 AM, 26 aerial targets have been confirmed as downed:
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3 Iskander-K cruise missiles;
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23 Shahed-type attack UAVs.
10 decoy drones were lost from radar tracking.
As a result of the attack, the following regions were affected: Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and Kyiv.
