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the night of January 13, 2023
This date is off by one year. The missile attack described here happened on January 13, 2024, not January 13, 2023.
Full reasoning
The surrounding details in the article match Russia's 13 January 2024 attack on Ukraine, not an attack from 2023.
The article says Ukrainian air defence destroyed 7 Kh-101/Kh-555/Kh-55 cruise missiles and 1 Kh-59, and that more than 20 other air attack weapons were not counted as shot down because electronic warfare caused them to miss their targets. Those are the details reported for 13 January 2024 by both Ukrainska Pravda and VOA.
Because the described event is the 2024 strike, the phrase "the night of January 13, 2023" is factually incorrect by one year.
2 sources
- Ukraine's Air Force on results of Russia's 13 January attack: Russian missiles are performing worse, Ukrainian electronic warfare is working | Ukrainska Pravda
13 January 2024 ... Over 20 Russian missiles and drones failed to reach their targets during Russia's combined air attack on Ukraine on the morning of 13 January ... Background: On the night of 12-13 January, Russian forces launched an airstrike on Ukraine using 40 assets ... Eight of the missiles were destroyed by Ukrainian air defence forces.
- Massive Russian Airstrikes Hit Ukraine | VOA
January 13, 2024 ... 'It should be noted that more than 20 of all the listed (weapons) which were not included in the number of the downed, did not reach their targets as a result of active countermeasures by electronic warfare,' the statement said.
Calculations showed that 1,979 drones per day or 82 per hour were forcibly stopped on the 700-kilometer front line.
The arithmetic is wrong. 7,916 drones over July 18–24, 2024 works out to about 1,131 per day and 47 per hour, not 1,979 and 82.
Full reasoning
The source figures given immediately before this sentence are 7,916 enemy UAVs over the period 18–24 July 2024, described as one week.
Using that time span:
- 7,916 ÷ 7 days = 1,130.86, so about 1,131 drones per day
- 7,916 ÷ 168 hours = 47.12, so about 47 drones per hour
That means the article's claimed rates of 1,979 per day and 82 per hour are mathematically inconsistent with the total and the stated seven-day period.
1 source
- Ukraine's Ground Forces disabled nearly 8,000 Russian drones last week | Ukrainska Pravda
Electronic warfare units of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have disabled or destroyed a total of 7,916 Russian drones over 18-24 July. Quote: 'A total of 4,313 fixed-wing UAVs and 3,603 FPV drones have been disabled.'
under the leadership of Germany and Sweden
This misstates who led the coalition at launch. Ukraine's Defense Ministry said Germany led the EW coalition, while Sweden officially joined it later in June 2025.
Full reasoning
Official Ukrainian government sources do not support the claim that the coalition was formed in April 2025 under the leadership of Germany and Sweden.
On 11 April 2025, Ukraine's Ministry of Defence said the coalition was launched by Ukraine's Defence Minister Rustem Umerov and Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius. Sweden was not named as a launch leader in that announcement.
Then, on 5 June 2025, Ukraine's Ministry of Defence reported that Sweden officially joined the Electronic Warfare Coalition together with four other countries, and explicitly stated that Germany leads the Coalition.
So the article's wording is inaccurate: for the coalition's April 2025 formation, Germany was the leader named by the official sources, while Sweden joined later rather than co-leading from the start.
2 sources
- A newly formed Electronic Warfare Coalition has been launched within the framework of the 'Ramstein' format | MoD News
11 April, 2025 ... Ukraine's Minister of Defence Rustem Umerov and Germany's Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius officially announced the launch of the newly established Electronic Warfare (EW) Coalition.
- Five new countries have joined the Electronic Warfare Coalition | MoD News
5 June, 2025 ... Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Türkiye, and Estonia officially joined the international Electronic Warfare (EW) Coalition ... The EW Coalition was established in April 2025 ... Germany leads the Coalition.