After noon on December 25, the Ukrainian Armed Forces Air Force warned of a missile threat in the sky over Kryvyi Rih and the area of the same name. Later, the Russian missile was destroyed.
The Air Force "shot down" a Russian missile in the Dnipropetrovsk region
In the Kryvyi Rih district, Ukrainian defenders destroyed an enemy-guided air missile that was moving in the direction of Kryvyi Rih.
This was reported on Facebook by the Eastern Air Command.
At 3:52 p.m., the Air Force announced that the threat had been defeated.
The head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Serhiy Lysak, also reported on Telegram about the shooting down of a Russian missile.
Minus the missile in the Kryvyi Rih district. The sky over the region is clear. We are grateful to Air Command "East".
An air alert was announced in the country's southern regions: Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, and Kherson.
The Air Force announced the results of the night air defence operation
According to the military, on the night of December 25, the enemy attacked with 31 Shahed-type drones from the Chauda, Balaklava - Crimea regions and two air missiles.
As a result of anti-aircraft combat, 28 Shahed-136/131 kamikaze drones were destroyed by the forces and means of the Air Force and the Defense Forces of Ukraine in the Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Donetsk, Kirovohrad and Khmelnytskyi regions, the Air Force writes.
Also, during the air attack, the enemy used the Kh-59 guided air missile in the direction of Zaporizhzhia and the Kh-31P anti-radar missile from the Black Sea.
Both are destroyed.
Air Force missile units also destroyed two enemy aircraft: one Su-34 in the Donetsk region (which was reported in the evening) and one Su-30SM over the Black Sea.
