During the night and morning of January 23, Russian terrorists fired 41 missiles at peaceful cities in Ukraine. One of them was destroyed by the soldiers with a Browning machine gun.
AFU destroyed a Russian cruise missile from a machine gun
The AFU Joint Forces Commander, Lieutenant General Serhii Naiev, shared this news with the Ukrainians.
In the Northern operational area, mobile fire groups managed to destroy several enemy cruise missiles. One of them was destroyed by a Browning machine gun, he wrote.
In addition, Serhii Naiev published a video of the destruction of an enemy target.
Russian missile attack on Ukraine on January 23: The Air Force reported its results
On the night of January 23, 2024, the Russian invaders launched a combined missile attack on Ukraine, using cruise, ballistic, aviation and anti-aircraft guided missiles.
A total of 41 enemy targets were recorded during the night, most of the launched missiles of the types that attack along a ballistic trajectory:
4 S-300/S-400 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the Belgorod region — in the direction of Kharkiv Oblast;
15 Kh-101/Kh-555/Kh-55 cruise missiles from six Tu-95MS strategic bombers (launch area — Russian city of Engels);
8 Kh-22 missiles from Tu-22M3 bombers from Bryansk and Oryol regions — in the direction of Kharkiv Oblast and Sumy Oblast;
12 "Iskander-M" ballistic missiles (launch area — Belgorod and Voronezh regions)
2 Kh-59 guided air missiles from two Su-34 aircraft (launch area — Belgorod Region, Russia).
During the combat work by the Air Force and the AFU air defence forces, the following enemy targets were destroyed:
15 X-101/X-555/X-55 cruise missiles;
5 Iskander-M ballistic missiles
One Kh-59 guided air missile.
Not all enemy missiles that attacked on a ballistic trajectory reached their targets.
