• 11/26/2024

Ukraine’s air defence downs 29 Russian targets out of 30 launched, including Kinzhal aeroballistic missile

Pravda Ukraine

Ukraine’s air defence shot down 29 Russian air targets out of 30 launched, including 5 missiles and 24 kamikaze drones, on the night of 11-12 June.

Source: Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of the Air Force, on Telegram

Details: The Russians launched a missile strike and drone strike against Ukraine, using air- and ground-launched missiles, as well as attack UAVs.

In total, Russian forces launched 30 air attack weapons:

– four Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles from Tu-95 MS strategic aircraft (launch area – Russia’s Saratov Oblast);

– one Iskander-M ballistic missile (launch area – temporarily occupied Crimea);

– one Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile (launch area – Russia’s Tambov Oblast);

– 24 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs (launch area – Yeysk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia).

Anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force and mobile firing groups and electronic warfare units of the Ukrainian defence forces were involved in repelling the Russian air attack.

As a result of combat efforts, 29 air targets were shot down:

– one Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile;

– four Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles;

– 24 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs.

The targets were downed within Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Kharkiv and Vinnytsia oblasts.

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https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/06/12/7460362/