Russia attacks Ukraine with various missiles and drones overnight: 30 missiles and 585 UAVs destroyed

STANISLAV POHORILOV - 6 December, 10:34

An air defence mobile fire group. Photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on social media

Russian forces have launched a combined strike on critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine using loitering munitions and air-to-surface, maritime surface-to-surface and surface-to-surface missiles on the night of 5-6 December.

Source: Ukrainian Air Force Command

Details: In total, Air Force air surveillance troops detected and tracked 704 Russian-launched aerial assets, specifically 51 missiles (including 17 ballistic ones) and 653 drones of various types:

653 Shahed and Gerbera loitering munitions as well as drones of other types, more than 300 of which were Shaheds
3 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal air-to-surface ballistic missiles
34 Kh-101/Iskander-K/Kalibr cruise missiles
14 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles.

Early reports indicate that as of 10:00, Ukrainian air defence units had shot down or jammed 615 air assets:

585 Shahed and Gerbera loitering munitions as well as drones of other types
29 Kh-101/Iskander-K/Kaliber cruise missiles
1 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missile

Hits by missiles and 60 loitering munitions were recorded at 29 locations, while debris from downed aerial vehicles fell at three separate sites.

The aerial attack is being repelled by aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare assets, unmanned systems units and mobile fire groups from the Ukrainian defence forces.

The attack continues, as several Russian drones are still in Ukrainian airspace.

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