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Air defense shot down 24 Russian missiles and more than 400 drones overnight


The Defense Forces indicated which missiles the occupiers used:

  • two Zircon/Onyx missiles (launch area – captured Crimea);
  • 21 Kh-101 cruise missiles (from the Caspian Sea);
  • 16 Kalibr cruise missiles (from the Black Sea).

Russian drones flew from the occupied part of the Donetsk region, Bryansk, Kursk, Orel, Smolensk, Rostov regions and Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation. The main directions of attacks were Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and Vinnytsia regions.

As of 10.30, units of radio-electronic and unmanned systems and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down 24 missiles (Kh-101 and Caliber) and 382 UAVs.

13 missiles and 21 drones were hit, and debris fell in three more places. Information about the two Russian missiles is being clarified, the report said.



Context

On February 7, the Russian Federation launched another massive attack on Ukrainian energy facilities. As reported Energy Minister Denis Shmygal, substations and overhead lines of 750 kV and 330 kV, which are the basis of Ukraine’s energy network, were under attack. The Russians also hit the generation: Burshtyn and Dobrotvorskaya thermal power plants.

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