"Shaheds", "Daggers" And Waves Of Cruise Missiles: Russia Massively Attacked Ukraine
- 19.11.2025, 8:17
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The attack continues.
In the early morning hours of Nov. 19, Russia put six TU-95ms, four TU-160s and five MiG-31Ks into the air. The Russians also launched Kalibr cruise missiles.
The Telegram channel "Nikolaev Vanek" reported this. The occupiers are also using "Shaheds" to strike Ukraine.
The progress of the attack
At 04:43 "Nikolaevsky Vanek" reported that Russia has put strategic aviation in the air.
"As of now there are 6 TU-95ms and 4 TU-160s in the air. There have been no launches yet, but we are expecting launches from them soon. Almost all the boards are flying a course to potential launch routes," the report noted.
In addition, at that moment there were at least 50 Shahed-type attack drones in Ukrainian airspace.
Russia also launched Kalibr cruise missiles from the Novorossiysk area: as of 04:28 "Nikolaev Vanek" reported the launches of up to 10 such means of air attack.
According to monitoring channels, the invaders launched "from 8 to 14 Kalibr missiles from the waters of the Black Sea."
"We expect missiles in our airspace within 30-40 minutes," Nikolaev Vanek warned at 04:28.
As of 04:58, the first Kalibrs were flying over Novaya Kakhovka in the occupied part of the Kherson region and continued flying through Bereznegovatoye toward Bashtanka, then turned toward Novaya Odessa, keeping a course to the west.
At 05:14 "Mykolaiv Vanek" reported that a group of five missiles flew along the administrative border between Odessa and Mykolaiv regions in the direction of Vinnitsa region, then flew into Vinnitsa from the south, passed north of Kamyanets-Podilskyi and entered Ternopil region. The course is north-west, towards Ternopil or through this regional center.
As of 05:48 at least three Kalibras were recorded in the north of Ivano-Frankivsk region, they were heading west.
Monitoring channels also warned of a possible MiG-31K takeoff around 05:00:05:30.
At 05:25, the takeoff of two MiG-31K fighters from the Savasljka airfield was confirmed. As they are carriers of Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles, an alert has been declared for all regions of the country.
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A minute after that the number of MiG-31Ks in the air increased to four boards, and by 05:26 - already to five.
At 05:31 there was information about the launches of "Kinzhals".
The same minutes were launched cruise missiles X-101 from bombersTu-95MS and Tu-160: they should enter Ukrainian airspace in 60-90 minutes.
At 05:45 monitoring channels reported the departure of bombers two Tu-22M3 from the airfield "Shaikovka". Almost simultaneously, new launches of Kalibras from the Black Sea were recorded.
"We are waiting for missiles closer to 06:30 - 07:00," wrote "Nikolaevsky Vanek".
Shortly after 6 a.m., there were probably repeated missile launches from Tu-95MS: the boards carried out launch maneuvers.
In the meantime, several groups of missiles X-101 entered Ukrainian airspace in Sumy region, the course - to Poltava region, through Romny to Lubny, further into Cherkassy region. As of 06:20 there were more than 20 missiles.
"All missiles are flying east of Cherkasy, heading to/through Smela. They will probably fly further towards Vinnitsa region," wrote "Mykolaiv Vanek" at 06:26.
A new group of missiles entered Ukrainian airspace through Sumy region, heading southwest, through the western part of Poltava region towards Cherkasy region. Another group of missiles from Cherkassy region entered south of Kiev region, keeping a course westward, toward Vinnitsa region.
As of 06:26, the threat was announced to have been canceled via MiG-31K. And less than 15 minutes later, one MiG-K took off again from Savasleika. Tentatively, it launched a Dagger.
At around 7 am, the Air Force reported about:
missiles in Khmelnytsky region, heading west;
missiles in the north of Vinnitsa region, heading west;
missiles in the south of Kiev region, heading west;
missiles in the west of Vinnitsa region, heading west.
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