“As of 10:00 a.m., two Kh-101 cruise missiles, two Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles and 37 unmanned aerial vehicles were downed”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
Radio engineering forces of the Air Force discovered 96 air attack tools (not including KAB):
- two S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the Kursk region of the Russian Federation – in the Sumy region;
- two Kh-101 cruise missiles – from Tu-95MS strategic bombers, launch area – Caspian Sea;
- two “Iskander-M”/KN-23 ballistic missiles, launch area, Voronezh region of the Russian Federation;
- 90 attack UAVs of the Shahed type and unmanned aerial vehicles of an unspecified type from the regions of Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Orel (RF).
47 drones were lost in different regions of Ukraine, two UAVs left the airspace of Ukraine in the direction of Belarus and Russia. Two more drones are in the air, combat work continues, the Armed Forces added.
According to the KMVA, for the first time in the last 73 days, the Russian military launched a combined missile-drone attack on Kyiv. As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, the Defense Forces destroyed several cruise missiles, several ballistic missiles and up to a dozen drones.
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The Russian military regularly attacks Ukrainian regions with various types of weapons – attack UAVs, rockets, anti-aircraft missiles, and 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.