The Russian Armed Forces have carried out a spate of missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian military targets, including military-industrial complex facilities, military airfields, arsenals, and weapon depots, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Friday.
"Between December 23 and December 29, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation conducted 50 group and one massive strike with high-precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles on Ukraine’s military-industrial complex facilities, military airfield infrastructure, arsenals, as well as storage sites: artillery ammunition, unmanned boats, weapons and fuel for military equipment," the ministry said, adding that all designated targets have been destroyed.
In addition, units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, nationalist formations and foreign mercenaries have been hit, according to the ministry.
Similarly, the ministry said ten warplanes and two helicopters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were shot down over the past seven days.
Explosions occurred at Ukrainian critical infrastructure facilities, industrial and military facilities last night, Ukrainian armed forces commander Valery Zaluzhny announced on his Telegram channel, without providing any details.
ReplyDeleteAir raid alarms were declared over entire Ukraine during night and morning hours. Explosions were reported in Dnepr, Kiev, Lvov, Odessa, Kharkov, Kiev-controlled city of Zaporozhye, as well as in Khmelnitsky and Ternopol regions.
The Ukrainian Air Force admitted they have not seen so many airborne targets simultaneously for a long time.
A Russian missile passed through Polish airspace Friday, entering from and then back into Ukraine, the Polish army said, as Russia pummeled Ukraine with one of the biggest missile attacks of the war.
ReplyDelete“Everything indicates that a Russian missile entered Polish airspace... It also left our airspace,” General Wieslaw Kukula, chief of the general staff of the Polish armed forces, told reporters.