The Russian Army carried out a massive attack on targets in western Ukraine on Sunday, which responded with offensives against the supply routes of Russian forces in the annexed regions of Kherson and Crimea, in the south of the country.
“The Russian Armed Forces carried out a massive strike with high-precision, long-range airborne and naval weapons against Ukrainian Army airbases in the towns of Starokonstantiniv in the Khmelnitsk region and Dubno in Rivna,” Igor Konashenkov said. , spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry.
According to the military spokesman, the attack achieved its purpose and “all the intended targets were hit.”
The Ukrainian President, Volodimir Zelensky, denounced that these attacks were aimed at the “Motor Sich” factory in Zaporizhia, which produced engines for combat aircraft for the Ukrainian Air Force, including drones, and others, without specifying, in the region of Ukraine. Khmelintsk.
Zelensky pointed out that this will not lead Russia to victory because “we will in any case defend the freedom of Ukraine, of all our people. Russia will not be able to supplant international law with terror.”
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that there were several waves of attacks with “Iranian Shahed-136/131 air- and naval-site missiles and assault drones.”
During the first wave of the Russian attack, 14 Kalibr naval-based missiles were launched, twelve of which were shot down, and three Kinzhal missiles, the destination of which was not specified by the Ukrainian side.
Subsequently, Russia again launched drones and Kalibr missiles from the south, to which were added X-101/X-555 cruise missiles “launched by Tu-95M strategic aircraft from the Caspian Sea.”
According to the Ukrainian Air Force all the drones were shot down, as were 5 of the 6 Kalibr missiles and 13 of the 20 X-101/X-555 missiles. “In total the enemy launched 70 aerial shells,” the Ukrainian side said.
In addition, Kiev denounced a Russian bomb attack directed against a blood bank in the Kharkov region, in the east of the country, as a result of which two people died and four others were injured.
“The Russians launched a bomb directed at a building in the town of Kruglákivka, in the Kupiansk district, and a big fire broke out,” reported the head of the Kharkov military administration, Oleg Sinegúbov, quoted by UNIAN.
The Ukrainian Army responded by launching several missiles on Sunday against the Chongar bridge, one of those that connects the annexed Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Crimea.
“The enemy carried out a missile attack in the vicinity of the Chongar bridge in northern Crimea,” Crimean leader Sergei Axionov said on Telegram.
According to the pro-Russian representative, “part of the missiles was shot down, but one hit the target. There is damage to the pavement of the automobile bridge, repairs have already begun. There are no victims.”
For his part, the acting governor imposed by Russia in Kherson, Vladimir Saldo, said the attack was carried out with British Storm Shadow missiles.
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