Russia launches cruise and ballistic missiles at Ukraine overnight: Air defense's work reported
Photo: Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of the Air Force of Ukraine (facebook.com.kpszsu)
The Russian invaders launched cruise missiles and ballistic missiles at Ukraine last night. The Ukrainian Air Defense Forces and means eliminated 3 Russian Kh-101 missiles, according to the commander of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk.
Russian attack
On the night of July 8, the Russian occupiers launched at Ukraine:
- 4 Kh-101s from the Saratov region in Russia,
- 2 Iskander-M ballistic missiles from the Russian Kursk region and the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea.
Repulsing Russian air strike
The general says that due to the combat work of Ukrainian Air Defense Forces, 3 Kh-101 cruise missiles were destroyed.
Russian missiles were shot down over Zhytomyr and Cherkasy regions.
Russian nighttime missile attack on Ukraine
Late in the evening of July 7, the Ukrainian Air Force recorded the takeoff of 4 Tu-95 strategic bombers from the Olenya airfield in the Murmansk region of the Russian Federation. At 1:41 a.m. on Monday, the military reported a missile threat due to the threat of cruise missile launches from these aircraft.
The announcement of the missile threat was made around 3:50 a.m.
Poland announced that its military aircraft were being scrambled because of the Russian missile attack on Ukraine,
In addition, an explosion was heard in Sumy that night. Also in Mykolaiv, an explosion was reported in Kharkiv.
