The enemy used six Daggers, 13 Calibers and ten ground-based missiles. 25 of them were destroyed.
In the past day, the enemy launched 31 missile strikes on Ukraine, the air defense forces destroyed 25 enemy targets. This was announced on May 17 by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“For missile strikes, the enemy used six Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles, 13 Caliber cruise missiles (two missiles exploded in the air) and ten ground-based missiles (S-400, Iskander-M), 25 of them were destroyed of our defenders,” the report said..
In particular, two S-300 missiles hit the civilian infrastructure of Konstantinovka in the Donetsk region and two Caliber missiles hit the civilian infrastructure of Nikolaev.
In addition, the Russian invaders launched 57 air strikes and carried out 96 attacks from multiple rocket-launching systems on the positions of Ukrainian troops and communities.
As a result of the attacks, civilian infrastructure was destroyed. In particular, as a result of shelling by the Russians in the settlements of Dvurechnaya, Volchansk and Tishchenkovka of the Kharkiv region, there were dead and wounded civilians, private residential houses, a hospital and other civilian facilities were destroyed .
“The probability of additional missile and air strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine remains high,” the General Staff insisted.
Recall that on the night of May 16, Kyiv experienced its eighth air attack since the beginning of May. The Russians carried out a complex attack from different directions at the same time, using UAVs, cruise and ballistic missiles.
In total, during the attack on Tuesday night, the enemy fired 18 missiles, six attack drones and three reconnaissance UAVs at Ukraine, all of which were shot down.
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Source: korrespondent
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