The Air Force reported how many missiles were shot down during the massive Russian attack.

On the night of December 25, 2024, Russian occupiers carried out a combined strike on facilities in Ukraine's fuel and energy sector using various types of rockets launched from air, ground, and sea, as well as strike drones of the 'Shahed' type and drones of other types. This was reported by the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In total, the radio technical troops of the Air Force detected and escorted 184 enemy aerial targets:

• two ballistic missiles KN-23 (launch area - Voronezh region);
• 10 surface-to-air missiles S-300/S-400 (launch area - Belgorod region)
• 12 cruise missiles 'Kalibr' (from the waters of the Black Sea);
• 50 cruise missiles X-101/X-55 with strategic bombers Tu-95MS (launch areas - Volgograd region, Caspian Sea);
• four guided aviation missiles X-59/X-69 from tactical aviation aircraft (launch areas - Belgorod region);
• 106 strike drones 'Shahed'/drones of various types (from the areas of Bryansk, Millerovo, Oryol, Primorsk-Akhtarsk - RF).

According to preliminary data, as of 12:00, the destruction of 113 aerial targets has been confirmed:

• 55 cruise missiles X-101, X-55, 'Kalibr';
• four guided aviation missiles X-59/X-69;
• 54 strike drones 'Shahed'/drones of various types, another 52 did not reach their targets (locationally lost).

The enemy attacked Ukrainian energy facilities in Kharkiv, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Zaporizhzhia. As a result of the Russian attack, there have been damages.

As a reminder, Russian troops have again launched mass attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities. Due to the massive missile strike on Ukraine, 'Ukrenergo' applied emergency power outages.

In particular, the occupiers struck at DTEK thermal power plants. As a result of the Russian attack, energy equipment has been severely damaged. Additionally, one person was killed due to a missile attack by the Russian Federation on energy facilities in Dnipropetrovsk region.

It should be noted that on December 23 in several regions of Ukraine, emergency outages had to be implemented. The reason for the temporary imposition of restrictions was the need for urgent replacement of equipment damaged during shelling and the loss of certain generating capacities.

Ukraine needs another 19 air defense systems to protect energy infrastructure from Russian bombings.