Russia launched 44 drones and 2 missiles over Ukraine overnight

2024-09-06 07:08:58

On the night of September 6, Russia hit Ukraine with two missiles and 44 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks. information Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (USU).

According to the Ukrainian army, Russia sent 46 air assault units:

• one Kh-59 air-guided missile;
• one Kh-31P anti-radiation missile from the airspace of Luhansk and Bransk regions;
• 44th unmanned aerial vehicle of the “Shaheed” type.

To repel the air attack, the Ukrainian forces used aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Air Force and the Defense Forces.

The department claims that the air defense system managed to shoot down 27 attack UAVs at 8 o’clock in the morning on September 6. In particular, 8 drones were shot down on the territory of Ukraine. It is possible that they fell due to the activity of EW resources. Another UAV turned towards the Russian-occupied part of the Donetsk region.

The attacks of “Shakhed” this time, in particular, were aimed at the regions of Khmelnytskyi and Vinnytsia.

At the same time, a new group of drones entered the Sumy region from the Belgorod region of Russia. In addition, the Ukrainian military warned about the threat of Russian UAVs in Dnipropetrovsk (in particular, the movement of drones towards the Dnieper), Ivano-Frankivsk and Zaporizhia regions.

In the Lviv region, as a result of falling debris, a fire broke out at an industrial enterprise, four trucks were burned.

There is no information about drone flights to Belarus this night. “Belarusian Gayun” channel. noticed except that the Ministry of Defense of Belarus will buy a batch of Chinese drones.

The war in Russia against Ukraine

• At 5 o’clock in the morning February 24, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a military operation against Ukraine in the Donbass at the request of the “DPR” and “LPR” groups. On February 21, during a televised speech to Russians, Putin called the so-called “DPR” and “LPR” independent states within the regions. On February 22, the Federal Council confirmed this decision.
• Russian troops attacked, including from the territory of Belarus, using airfields, bases and roads. Representatives of Lukashenka’s regime justify the war, his opponents consider the territory of Belarus to be occupied, and many claim that they are against the Russian invaders.
• Contrary to Putin’s statements about attacks only on military facilities, the Russians are bombing schools, kindergartens and residential areas in Ukrainian cities.
• On April 2, 2022, after the liberation of the town of Bucha near Kyiv, photojournalists published dozens of photographs showing hundreds of dead people, victims of mass murders committed by Russian troops. Many have been buried in spontaneous mass graves. The Russian occupation also devastated the Barodyan people.
• Since February 24, Russia has captured only one regional center – Kherson. Russian troops escaped from it and the right bank part of the Kherson region in November 2022. The city was occupied by Russian troops in the first days of the war without really fighting. In the autumn of 2022, Ukrainian troops launched a large-scale offensive, as a result of which Russian forces left most of their positions in the Kharkiv region.
• Despite Putin’s initial statement that the occupation of Ukrainian territory was not part of the invasion plans, on September 30, 2022, four Ukrainian regions were annexed (Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Luhansk, and Kherson), including territories that were not controlled by Russia, announced.
• On September 21, 2022, Putin announced the mobilization in Russia. After this statement, thousands of Russians went to the border crossings and started leaving for Georgia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Mongolia, Finland and other countries. In Russia itself, opponents of the war set several military commissars on fire.
• In 2023, Lukashenko and Putin announced the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus. On June 13, Lukashenka said that some of the nuclear weapons had already been delivered from the Russian Federation to Belarus. On June 16, Putin also said that the first nuclear charges have already been delivered to the territory of Belarus, and the rest will be moved “by the end of the summer or the end of the year.”
• On September 3, Ukrainian Brigadier General Alexander Tarnovsky said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had broken through the first line of defense in the direction of Zaporizhia, on which the Russians spent the most resources.
• In late 2023 and early 2024, the Russians continued to shell Ukrainian cities: Dnipro, Kiev, Kharkiv, Odessa and other places, killing and injuring dozens of people. In response, the Ukrainian side shelled Belgorod Russian, several people were killed. Both countries’ armed forces regularly attack each other’s controlled territories with drones.
• In total, since the beginning of 2024, Ukrainian drones have damaged 18 Russian refineries, resulting in a nearly 14% reduction in production. In March, things like the Rosneft Ryazan Refinery and the Lukoil plant in Kstov, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast were attacked. Both are among the 10 largest refineries in Russia and supply gasoline to Moscow.
• On August 6, 2024, Ukraine began an operation in the Kursk region. On August 19, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, said that 92 settlements of the Kursk region of Russia are under the control of Ukraine during the operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky, clarified that there are 82 such arrangements. of Ukraine.” Experts of the Institute for the Study of War, after analyzing the statements and video materials with geolocation, concluded that Ukraine does not control all the territory in the Kursk region within the declared borders of the advance.
• On August 16-18, Ukrainian forces blew up three strategically important bridges for the logistical support of the Russian troop group in Ukraine and military aviation based in the Kursk region.
• Information about military operations provided by officials of different parties cannot always be independently verified.