{"id":35406,"date":"2025-10-16T08:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/over-ukraine-283-out-of-320-enemy-drones-and-five-out-of-37-missiles-were-neutralized-another-18-were-lost-most-of-the-missiles-launched-by-russia-were-ballistic\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:01:42","slug":"over-ukraine-283-out-of-320-enemy-drones-and-five-out-of-37-missiles-were-neutralized-another-18-were-lost-most-of-the-missiles-launched-by-russia-were-ballistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/over-ukraine-283-out-of-320-enemy-drones-and-five-out-of-37-missiles-were-neutralized-another-18-were-lost-most-of-the-missiles-launched-by-russia-were-ballistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Over Ukraine, 283 out of 320 enemy drones and five out of 37 missiles were neutralized, another 18 were lost, most of the missiles launched by Russia were ballistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the night, Russia attacked Ukraine with 37 missiles and 320 drones; 283 UAVs and 5 Kh-59 missiles were neutralized. Another 18 missiles were lost, with the main strike targeting Poltava and Kharkiv regions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F10%2F16%2F1760601562-3531-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Over Ukraine, 283 out of 320 enemy drones and five out of 37 missiles were neutralized, another 18 were lost, most of the missiles launched by Russia were ballistic\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Russia launched 37 missiles, including 28 &quot;ballistic&quot; ones, and 320 drones at Ukraine overnight, with 5 X-59 missiles and 283 drones neutralized, and another 18 missiles lost to location, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Thursday, writes UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>According to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the night of October 16 (from 8:00 PM on October 15), the enemy &quot;launched a combined attack on energy infrastructure facilities in Ukraine using attack UAVs, air-launched and ground-launched missiles.&quot; In total, the radio-technical troops of the Air Force detected and tracked 357 air attack assets \u2013 37 missiles (28 of them \u2013 &quot;ballistic&quot;) and 320 UAVs of various types:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 320 Shahed-type attack UAVs, Gerbera (other types of drones) from the directions of Kursk, Millerovo, Shatalovo, Oryol, Primorsko-Akhtarsk \u2013 Russia, about 200 of them \u2013 &quot;Shaheds&quot;;  <\/li>\n<li> 2 Kh-47M2 &quot;Kinzhal&quot; aeroballistic missiles from the airspace of the Ryazan region &#8211; Russia;  <\/li>\n<li> 26 Iskander-M\/KN-23 ballistic missiles (launch areas: temporarily occupied territory of Crimea; Kursk, Voronezh regions \u2013 Russia);  <\/li>\n<li> 2 Iskander-K cruise missiles (launch areas: temporarily occupied territory of Crimea; Rostov region \u2013 Russia);  <\/li>\n<li> 7 Kh-59 guided air-launched missiles.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare and unmanned systems units, and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to preliminary data, as of 10:00 AM, air defense shot down\/suppressed 288 air targets: 283 enemy Shahed-type UAVs, Gerbera (other types of drones); 5 Kh-59 guided air-launched missiles. In addition (as of 10:00 AM), 18 enemy missiles were lost to location, information is being clarified. Currently, 14 direct hits by missiles and 37 attack UAVs have been recorded at 14 locations, and the fall of downed (fragments) at 2 locations<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; reported the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on social networks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&quot;The main direction of the attack is Poltava and Kharkiv regions,&quot; the report says.<\/p>\n<p>As indicated, the attack continues, with several enemy UAVs in the airspace.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Putin is deaf to everything the world says&quot;: Zelenskyy reacted to Russia&#039;s attack with over 300 drones and 37 missiles before talks in the US16.10.25, 10:09 \u2022 1276 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the night, Russia attacked Ukraine with 37 missiles and 320 drones; 283 UAVs and 5 Kh-59 missiles were neutralized. Another 18 missiles were lost, with the main strike targeting Poltava and Kharkiv regions. Russia launched 37 missiles, including 28 &quot;ballistic&quot; ones, and 320 drones at Ukraine overnight, with 5 X-59 missiles and 283 drones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}