Ukrainian air defense forces have shot down 700 Russian missiles and 650 kamikaze drones since September last year, Yuriy Ignat said.
Since September 2022, Ukraine’s air defense forces, after the start of a massive Russian attack on critical infrastructure, have fired up to 700 surface-to-air missiles. This is what the spokesman of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuriy Ignat, said on the air of the United News telethon.
According to him, Russia used a large strategic stockpile of missiles in these strikes.
“After March 9 (another massive attack – ed.), the air defense shot down 700 missiles, not counting the kamikaze drones, more than 650 of them were also shot down,” he said.
The representative of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recalled that the head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Oleksiy Reznikov, in a meeting with his Norwegian counterpart Frank Bakke-Jensen, said: 820 missiles – both cruise and ballistic – was used. of the Russians on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure since September.
We are only talking about high-precision and long-range missiles, but Russia also uses Kh-22, S-300 and other guided aircraft missiles.
Recall that Russia on Thursday, March 9, during the missile attack on Ukraine, spent the number of missiles it produces in a month.
As you know, on the night of March 9, Russian troops fired 81 missiles of different bases: Kh-101 / Kh-555, Caliber, X-22, Kinzhal, Kh-31P, X-59 , S-300, as well as Shahed-136 UAV /131.
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