Ukrainian forces down three Russian Iskander-K missiles, 23 Shahed drones

The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

Beginning at 19:30 on Thursday, the Air Force’s radio engineering troops detected and tracked a total of 43 Russian air attack vehicles over Ukraine, according to preliminary data.

Among them were one Iskander-M ballistic missile launched from occupied Crimea, five Iskander-K cruise missiles fired from Crimea and the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region, as well as 37 Shahed-type attack drones and decoy UAVs launched from Millerovo and Kursk in Russia.

The attack was repelled by Ukrainian aviation, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare systems, and mobile fire groups.

As of 09:30 on Friday, April 18, Ukrainian forces had confirmed the destruction of 26 aerial targets: three Iskander-K cruise missiles and 23 Shahed-type attack drones.

The Russian attack affected multiple regions, including Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and Kyiv regions.

As reported by Ukrinform, at dawn on April 18, Russian forces launched a drone strike on a bread factory in Sumy, disrupting Easter cake production and killing one person and injuring another.