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Air battle on Christmas night: the Russian Federation attacked 6 waves, and the drones were overcome 900 km - expert

December became a "black" moon for the tactical aviation of Russian invaders. Defense forces have destroyed and damaged 6 enemy aircraft during the month, and the Russians kissed one of their assails with a "friendly" fire. On the Christmas night of the Armed Forces, the Shahaned Ukraine attacked Ukraine and struck rocket strokes with tactical aviation. The details of the night attack were told by military observer Alexander Kovalenko, analyst of the group "Information resistance".

"Air battle on Christmas night. On the night of December 25, Russian invaders were used in Ukraine both drones-Kamikadze Shahd-136 and missile strikes with tactical aviation. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation used 31 Drone Camicades, of which 28 were shot. The occupiers launched ShahED-136 at about 6:00 pm, applying 6 groups of attacks for all time. The attack lasted more than 6 hours, and the distance overcome was about 900 km, "the expert informed.

He noted that after 5 groups of drones was launched - the sixth, which consisted of one drone. The hostile tactical aviation used X-59 missiles and anti-radiolocation X-31P during the attack. "The missiles were shot down and the Russian Su-30cm fighter was shot down. In addition, the destruction of another front bomber Su-34 was confirmed. Thus, December becomes a very hot month due to the loss of Russian aviation," Alexander Kovalenko stressed.

On December 25, the Air Force reported that the enemy at night attacked Ukraine 31 shaped UAVs, which were launched from Chaudy districts, Balaklava - from Crimea. The invaders also used 2 aviation missiles. "As a result of the air-to-air battle, 28 shock UAVs" Shahd-136/131 "were destroyed within the Odessa, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Donetsk, Kirovograd and Khmelnitsky regions. X-59 in the Zaporizhzhya direction and anti-radiolocation missile X-31P from the Black Sea. Both-destroyed, "-the message reads.

The aircraft also noted that the anti-aircraft units of the Air Force destroyed two enemy aircraft in the last day: one Su-34-in Donetsk region and one Su-30cm-above the Black Sea. Military observer Oleksandr Kovalenko recalled that on December 5, the forces of defense were destroyed by the enemy Su-24M aircraft, and the night of December 17 at the airfield in Morozovsk was damaged by two front-line bombers Su-34.

On December 22, three SU-34 were destroyed, and on the night of December 25, another 1 SU-34 and Su-30cm. "And this is without the fact that the Russians shot down on December 17, the Su-25 assault," the expert summarized. We will remind that on December 23 the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck a rocket strike in Dnipropetrovsk and Kirovograd regions. The sounds of explosions were heard in Kropyvnytskyi and Kryvyi Rih.