“The main direction of the strike, according to the Air Force, was the north and center of Ukraine”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to these data, it is about
– one Iskander-M ballistic missile from the Rostov region of the Russian Federation;
– two Kh-59/69 guided air missiles from the airspace of the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation;
– one missile (type to be determined) from the Kursk region of the Russian Federation;
– 81 Shahed-type attack UAVs from the Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk regions of the Russian Federation.
The main direction of the strike, according to the Air Force, was the north and center of Ukraine.
“The air attack was repulsed by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and the Defense Forces of Ukraine. As a result of anti-aircraft combat, 66 enemy attack UAVs were shot down in the Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Sumy, and Mykolaiv regions. Another 13 enemy drones have been lost in several regions of Ukraine as a result of active countermeasures by the Defense Forces,” the Ukrainian military informs.
The forces of the Russian Federation regularly attack the Ukrainian regions with various types of weapons – attack UAVs, missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, anti-aircraft missiles.
The leadership of Russia denies that the Russian army during a full-scale war inflicts targeted strikes on the civilian infrastructure of the cities and villages of Ukraine, killing the civilian population and destroying hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy and water supply facilities.
The Ukrainian authorities and international organizations qualify these strikes as war crimes by the Russian Federation and emphasize that they are purposeful in nature.