Last night, Ukrainian air defense shot down 35 cruise missiles and 46 Russian kamikaze drones: the Kiev Air Force announced this on Telegram.
Russian forces launched a total of 53 missiles of various types and 47 Shahed-131 unmanned aerial vehicles. “The Russian invaders launched a powerful attack on critical infrastructure in various regions of Ukraine, using air, sea and land missiles, as well as Shahed-type drones,” said Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, commander of the Ukrainian Air Force.
Oleshchuk specified that “thirty-five Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles were launched from Tu-95MS strategic bombers from the Russian region of Saratov and from the airspace over the Caspian Sea; four Iskander-M ballistic missiles (from Crimea); one Iskander-K cruise missile from Crimea; 10 Kalibr cruise missiles from the northeastern part of the Black Sea; three Kh-59/Kh-69 guided aerial missiles from the airspace (of the occupied region) of Zaporizhzhia and 47 one-way attack drones of the Shahed-131/136” type from the Prymorsk-Akhtarsk area in Russia.
Overall, the commander continued, “81 aerial targets were shot down, including 30 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles; four Kalibr cruise missiles; one Iskander-K cruise missile, and 46 attack drones of the type Shahed-131/136”.
To know more Massive-Russian-airstrike-35-cruise-miss ANSA Agency Austin will speak with Zelensky about the targets to be hit with US weapons – News – Ansa.it They will see each other on the sidelines of the Singapore summit. Belgium opposed to the use of its F-16s outside Ukraine (ANSA)
Last night the Russians attacked energy plants in the Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kirovohrad and Ivano-Frankivsk: Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko announced this on Facebook, as reported by Ukrainska Pravda. The damage to the targeted plants is currently being assessed, the minister added.
The Russians also attacked an unidentified critical infrastructure in the Vinnytsia region, where a fire broke out due to falling fragments of a downed enemy drone, the head of the regional military administration, Serhiy Borzov, announced.