Russia Attacks Kyiv With Drones And Ukraine Sees Patriots Coming Closer [VIDEO]

This Wednesday Russia attacked again drones The Iranian capital of Ukraine and the Kyiv region, although air defenses managed to stop them, according to the authorities, who insist on the need to better protect their skies with systems such as Patriot anti-missile batteries, the delivery of which is already completed by the United States.

“The terrorists started the morning with the launch of 13 Shahed. All 13 were shot down by air defense forces Ukraine. Well done, I’m proud,” President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said.

air Force Ukraine explained that Shahed-136/131 were launched from the eastern coast of the Sea of ​​Azov.

Material damage due to air defense

The head of the Kyiv city military administration, Sergei Popko, said that the fragments drones A kamikaze attacked an administrative building, and four other residential buildings suffered “insignificant damage” in the Shevchenkovsky district of the capital.

This was stated by the head of the Kyiv regional military administration Oleksiy Kuleba. Russia It targeted critical infrastructure in the province and the capital, but only the remnants of the downed Shahed damaged a private home.

According to the Ukrainian authorities, there are no victims either in the region or in the capital.

Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat noted that this was the third attack in recent times. drones Iranian-made after they reappeared on the night of December 6-7 after a three-week break, and Ukrainian intelligence was trying to figure out if those in use today are new or from an earlier batch.

In any case, he said Russia has no problems with logistics, since the Caspian Sea shares with Iran and Moscow can receive drones By air or small shipments even by sea.

Advisor to the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak said that the fact that air defense shot down everything drones suicide bombers in the air is at the same time a sign of “the great work of the defenders Ukraineas a result of recent Allied support.”

“Your air defense systems are saving lives, but we still have a lot of work to do,” he tweeted.

Russia also attacks Kherson

Hours later Russia shelled the city of Kherson, where shells hit the central building of the Regional Military Directorate, where a month ago, after the withdrawal of Russian troops, the Ukrainian flag fluttered again, and damaged two floors, according to the deputy head of the Office of the President UkraineKirill Timoshenko.

According to the Kherson regional prosecutor’s office, one of the shells hit the roof of the house. At least six civilians were injured in the attack.

Coinciding with these new bombings, Zelensky today held a regular meeting of the General Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, after which his office announced that work to strengthen the country’s air and missile defense continues.

Ukraine In recent months, it has insisted on the need, first of all, to get systems that increase its speed of shooting down ballistic missiles in the face of increased Russian bombing of energy infrastructure, such as the Patriots, which Germany has finally abandoned. hand over to Kiev, but to Poland.

However, now the decision may come directly from the United States, which manufactures this anti-missile system.

Are the long-awaited and patriotic systems coming?

The United States government is finalizing the details of sending the Patriots to Ukrainewhich could be announced this week, according to CNN.

These anti-aircraft batteries are capable of intercepting cruise and ballistic missiles, and a single system usually includes a target acquisition and tracking radar, computers, generators and a control room, as well as eight mini-launchers with four missiles ready to launch.

At the same time, the French media “Challenges” claimed the day before that Paris and Rome accepted Kyiv’s request to send Ukraine Franco-Italian air defense system SAMP / T-MAMBA with a field of action of more than a hundred kilometers and a firepower of eight missiles.

“Both Patriot and SAMP/T protect against ballistic missiles. But we have repeatedly said that it is not so easy to shoot them down even with these means. You need to have enough. Military-political leadership Ukraine knows it, our partners know it, so there is a certain plan of action,” Ignat said today.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov immediately stated that the Patriots, if the United States sent them to Ukrainebecome legitimate targets of the Armed Forces Russia.

(As reported by EFE)

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