Ukraine's air defence destroyed half of Russia's cruise missiles during the new attack
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Ukraine's air defence destroyed half of Russia's cruise missiles during the new attack

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The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine General Valerii Zaluzhnyi noted that not all enemy missiles that attacked along a ballistic trajectory reached their targets.

Russia used 41 missiles on Ukraine

On the night of January 23, Russian troops launched a combined missile attack on Ukraine, using cruise, ballistic, aviation and anti-aircraft guided missiles.

The invaders attacked Ukraine, firing 41 rockets. These are cruise, ballistic, aviation and anti-aircraft guided missiles. Air defence forces destroyed 21 enemy air targets.

Most of the missiles launched in Ukraine are of the type that attack along a ballistic trajectory:

  • 4 S-300/S-400 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the Belgorod region — in the direction of the Kharkiv region;

  • 15 Kh-101/Kh-555/Kh-55 cruise missiles from six Tu-95MS strategic bombers (launch area — Engels, Russia);

  • 8 Kh-22 missiles from Tu-22M3 bombers from Bryansk and Oryol regions — in the direction of Kharkiv region and Sumy region;

  • 12 "Iskander-M" ballistic missiles (launch area — Belgorod and Voronezh regions of the Russian Federation);

  • 2 Kh-59 guided air missiles from two Su-34 aircraft (launch area — Belgorod region of the Russian Federation).

Rocket attack on January 23

The Russian invaders staged a massive missile attack on Kyiv, Kharkiv and Pavlograd in the Dnipropetrovsk region. In the capital, debris fell in several districts, causing destruction and injuring 18 people. In Kharkiv, two houses were hit: there were victims and dozens of wounded. There is one victim and one injured in Pavlograd.

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