On the night of today, January 23, the Russian invaders launched a combined missile attack on Ukraine, using cruise, ballistic, aircraft and anti-aircraft guided missiles.
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This was reported in the Telegram channel of the Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
It is noted that in total 41 enemy air attack weapons were recorded during the night, most of the missiles fired were of the types that attack along a ballistic trajectory:
- four S-300/S-400 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation – in the direction of the Kharkov region;
- 15 X-101/X-555/X-55 cruise missiles from six Tu-95MS strategic bombers (launch area – Engels, Russian Federation);
- eight Kh-22 missiles from Tu-22M3 bombers from the Bryansk and Oryol regions – in the direction of the Kharkov and Sumy regions;
- 12 Iskander-M ballistic missiles (launch area – Belgorod and Voronezh regions of Russia);
- two X-59 guided aircraft missiles from two Su-34 aircraft (launch area – Belgorod region of the Russian Federation).
As a result of combat work by the forces and means of the Air Force in cooperation with the air defense of the Defense Forces, the following were destroyed:
- 15 X-101/X-555/X-55 cruise missiles;
- five Iskander-M ballistic missiles
- guided aircraft missile X-59.
It is important that not all enemy missiles attacking along a ballistic trajectory reached their targets! – noted in the Air Force.
Source: Racurs
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