Russia carried out another massive missile attack on Ukraine on Sunday. Moscow claims to have hit airbases in the west of the country, while kyiv targeted two bridges in the occupied zone.
“Thirty cruise missiles and twenty-seven drones were destroyed,” the Ukrainian air force announced on Telegram on Saturday night August 5 to Sunday August 6, adding that Russia also used three hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, without specifying whether they had been destroyed or not. Thirty of the 40 cruise missiles fired by Russia, and all of the Shahed drones sent, were reportedly shot down.
“In total, the enemy used 70 air weapons in several waves of attack”, including in the Khmelnytsky region, hundreds of kilometers from the front lines, but which hosts a major Ukrainian air base.
The head of the administration of the region, Sergiy Tyurin, indicated that the attack had notably reached a warehouse of corn waste, causing a fire which destroyed the building and affected more than 1,400 square meters, before fail to turn it off. One employee was injured in the fire.
Russia announced that its forces had struck military air bases in the Khmelnytsky and Rivne regions of western Ukraine, saying “all objectives have been achieved”. “During the night, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a strike […] on the air bases of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the settlements of Starokostiantyniv in the Khmelnytsky region and Dubno in the Rivne region,” the Russian Ministry of Security announced. defense.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced, for his part, that a drone targeting the Russian capital had been shot down on Sunday by the air defense forces, after several similar attacks. “Today around 11 a.m. a drone attempted a breakthrough towards Moscow. It was destroyed on approach by air defense forces,” the mayor said on Telegram.
Two missiles fired by Ukrainian forces hit two bridges in territory occupied by Moscow on Sunday.
The first targeted the Chongar bridge in the Crimea, a peninsula annexed in 2014. “Some missiles were shot down by the air defense forces. The road bridge platform has been damaged, repair work has already started. There are no casualties,” Pro-Russian Governor Sergey Aksionov said.
The second targeted a bridge near the town of Genichesk in the southern Kherson region, injuring one person and damaging a gas pipe that left 20,000 homes without gas, said occupation official Vladimir Saldo. According to him, 9 out of 12 Ukrainian missiles were shot down. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced that a Ukrainian drone targeting the Russian capital had been shot down by anti-aircraft defense, after a series of similar attacks in recent weeks.