Russia has launched a brand new wave of assaults on Ukraine, apparently focusing on a navy airport within the west of the nation.
“In the Lviv region they turned 180 degrees and ended up flying into the Khmelnytskyi region in the Starokostyantyniv district,” Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuri Ihnat instructed news tv on Wednesday concerning the Russian missiles.
According to him, projectiles have been intercepted over the Kiev, Kharkiv and Dnipro areas. A complete of 36 cruise missiles have been intercepted by the night, the air drive mentioned. In the meantime, an air alert had sounded all through the nation.
The goal of the assaults is claimed to have been Su-24 fighter-bombers on the Starokostyantyniv navy airport.
The Ukrainian air drive has carried out a number of profitable airstrikes with Su-24s utilizing Storm Shadow cruise missiles on Russian ammunition depots on the occupied Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. The Starokostyantyniv airbase has been repeatedly attacked with missiles by the Russian navy for the reason that full-scale Russian invasion started over 17 months in the past.
It was not initially recognized whether or not there was any destruction this time.
Afterwards, the top of the Ukrainian air drive, Mykola Oleshchuk, thanked the members of the air defence. “The day was not easy, but thanks to the coordinated actions of all sky guards, this attack was repelled,” he wrote on Telegram.
In the afternoon, three Kalibr missiles have been fired over the Vinnytsia space. Information on the doable use of Kinshal (Dagger) hypersonic missiles can be supplied later, he mentioned.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
