**Russia Launches Massive Night Assault on Ukraine, 537 Airstrikes Target Country**
In a shocking and unprecedented attack, Russia launched a massive night assault on Ukraine on June 29, 2025. The Russian military used a variety of missiles and drones to target the country, with over 500 air targets hit in total.
**Russian Enemy Air Attack Vehicles Identified**
The Russian enemy attacked Ukraine with 537 air attack vehicles, including:
* 477 Shahed strike drones and simulator drones from various directions
* 4 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles from the airspace of Tambov region
* 7 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles from Voronezh region and temporary occupied territory of Crimea
* 41 Kh-101/Iskander-K cruise missiles from Saratov, Kursk, Bryansk regions
* 5 Caliber cruise missiles
* 4 Kalibr cruise missiles
**Ukrainian Forces Repel Attack**
All available means of the Defense Forces that can operate against enemy air attack means were involved in repelling the massive attack. The Air Force aviation, including F-16 aircraft, worked productively to destroy dozens of “shaheeds”.
**Pilot Maksym Ustimenko Dies Heroically**
Unfortunately, this night a pilot of the 1st class, Lieutenant Colonel Maksym Ustimenko, born in 1993, died on an F-16 aircraft while repelling a massive enemy air attack. The pilot used the entire complex of on-board weapons, shot down seven air targets, but did not have time to eject.
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