Air defense forces shot down 18 Russian targets during the night

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On the night of March 31, the Air Defense Forces destroyed nine Х-101/Х-555 cruise missiles and nine Shahed attack UAVs during another Russian attack.

This was reported by Air Force Commander Mykola Oleschuk.

The Russian occupiers fired 14 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles from Tu-95MS strategic aircraft from the Saratov region and another 11 drones from the Primorsko-Akhtarsk region and Crimea.

At the same time, the Russians attacked with an Iskander-M ballistic missile from Crimea and a Kh-59 guided air missile from the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region.

Anti-aircraft missile units and fighter aircraft of the Air Force, mobile fire groups, and electronic warfare equipment of the Defense Forces of Ukraine were involved in repelling the air attack.

We will remind that on Saturday, March 30, the forces and means of anti-aircraft defense in the Mykolayiv region destroyed the guided air missile Kh-59.