Defence forces shot down 35 cruise missiles and 46 shaheds overnight

The commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, announced this on Telegram .

According to him, on the night of June 1, the Russian invaders launched a powerful missile and air strike on critical infrastructure in different regions of Ukraine, using air, sea and ground-based missiles, as well as Shahed-type attack UAVs.

In total, the enemy fired 53 missiles of various types and 47 attack UAVs:

• 35 X-101/X-555 cruise missiles from Tu-95 MS strategic aviation aircraft (launch area - Saratov region, airspace over the Caspian Sea);
• 4 Iskander-M ballistic missiles (from temporarily occupied Crimea);
• 1 Iskander-K cruise missile (from Crimea);
• 10 Kalibr cruise missiles (from the north-eastern part of the Black Sea);
• 3 X-59/X-69 guided aircraft missiles (from the airspace of the temporarily occupied part of the Zaporizhzhya region);
• 47 attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type (launch area Primorsko-Akhtarsk).

Fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force, mobile fire groups and electronic warfare equipment of the Ukrainian Defence Forces were involved in repelling the air attack.

As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, 81 air targets were shot down:

• 30 X-101/X-555 cruise missiles;
• 4 cruise missiles "Caliber";
• 1 Iskander-K cruise missile;
• 46 attack drones of the Shahed-131/136 type.

As Oleshchuk emphasized, “Russian terrorists do not abandon their intentions to destroy the fuel and energy sector of the state. The Air Force and Defence Forces of Ukraine are doing everything possible to prevent the enemy from achieving their goals on every sector of the front.”