During the night of 24 April 2025, russian occupiers launched a combined strike on Ukraine with missiles of various air‑, land‑, and sea‑based types, as well as Shahed strike UAVs and decoy drones of other types, the Ukrainian Air Force reports.
The main axis of the strike was the city of Kyiv.
In total, Air Force radio‑technical troops detected 215 enemy aerial targets:
- 11 Iskander‑M/KN‑23 ballistic missiles (launched from the russian Bryansk, Voronezh, and Kursk oblasts)
- 37 Kh‑101 cruise missiles from Tu‑95MS strategic bombers (launched from the Saratov oblast)
- 6 Iskander‑K cruise missiles (launched from the Donetsk oblast)
- 12 Kalibr cruise missiles (from the Black Sea)
- 4 Kh‑59/Kh‑69 guided air‑launched missiles from tactical aircraft (launched from the Belgorod oblast)
- 145 Shahed strike UAVs/other types of decoy drones (launched from Bryansk, Millerovo, Kursk, and Primorsko‑Akhtarsk in russia; Chauda in Crimea)
Fighter aviation, SAM units, electronic warfare assets, and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and Ukraine’s Defense Forces were engaged to repel the attack.
Preliminary data as of 10:00 a.m. confirm the downing of 112 aerial targets:
- 7 Iskander‑M/KN‑23 ballistic missiles
- 31 Kh‑101 cruise missiles
- 6 Kalibr cruise missiles
- 4 Kh‑59/Kh‑69 guided missiles
- 64 Shahed strike UAVs
Additionally, 68 enemy decoy drones were locally lost (without negative consequences).
As a result of the russian attack, the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, and Khmelnytskyi oblasts suffered damage.