08:31
23 Jun 2023
Ukraine's air defense downs 13 Russian cruise missiles overnight
On the night of June 23, during another Russian attack on the sky of Ukraine, 13 out of 13 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles were destroyed by Ukraine's air defense.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that most of them were downed in the Khmelnytskyi region in the west of the country.
The Russian forces attacked Ukraine from strategic aircraft. This time, the attack was aimed at a military airfield in the Khmelnytskyi region. The launches were carried out around midnight from the Caspian Sea by four Tu-95MS bombers.
"The anti-aircraft defense destroyed all 13 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles, most of them in the Khmelnytskyi region," the message says.
Defenders of the Ukrainian sky destroyed a reconnaissance UAV of an unknown type.
