The AFU downed 21 out of 23 cruise missiles and 2 drones overnight – General Zaluzhny
russian occupiers attacked Ukraine from Tu-95 strategic aircraft from the Caspian Sea
On Friday morning, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down 21 of 23 enemy cruise missiles and 2 drones, said Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny.
"Around 4 a.m., russian occupiers attacked Ukraine from Tu-95 strategic aircraft from the Caspian Sea area. The anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force of Ukraine, in cooperation with the Air Defence of other components of the Defence Forces, destroyed 21 out of 23 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles, as well as two operational and tactical UAVs," he wrote on his Telegram channel.
The Commander-in-Chief clarified that the targets had been destroyed in the areas of responsibility of the Central Air Command, the Eastern Air Command, and the Southern Air Command.
According to observers, at 03:15 a.m., missiles were launched from Tu-95s from the northeast toward Ukraine.
At 03:50 a.m., they crossed the border and, changing their route, headed in the directions of Cherkasy, Poltava, Dnipro, Mykolaiv, and Kyiv oblasts.
At 04:45 a.m., explosions were heard in Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and Kyiv oblasts.
At 05:10 a.m., a multi-storey building in Uman was struck. There were also other hits in the city.
Previously. The day before, the occupiers shelled the Antonivsky Bridge area in Kherson Oblast, killing Bogdan Bitik, a Ukrainian producer of the Italian edition of La Repubblica.
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