At least eight people, including two children, have died and about 25 have been injured in Dnipropetrovsk, in central Ukraine, in a Russian missile attack recorded early this Friday.
According to the head of the Ukrainian Military Administration in the area, Sergei Lisak, part of the Russian missiles fell in the regional capital of Dnipro, where they hit a five-story building, causing fatalities.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has condemned the attack and has reported damage to the city’s train station, close to the front and home to a million people.
“We must defeat Russian terror,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram, who once again insisted on asking his allies to send more air defense systems to be able to shoot down “all the missiles and all the Shahed (drones)” with which Russia attacks Russia. Ukraine almost every night.
Ukraine shoots down one of the Russian bombers
The Russian forces used a total of 22 missiles of different types in this attack, of which the Ukrainian air defenses shot down 14, without being able to avoid numerous impacts on structures and buildings in the area.
Specifically, according to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia used two Kh-101 and Kh-555 cruise missiles, 12 Kh-59 and Kh-69 guided cruise missiles, two Iskander-K cruise missiles and six Kh-22 cruiser, which were fired by Tu-22M3 bombers from the Black Sea and Azov Sea areas.
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In addition to intercepting 14 of these projectiles, the Ukrainian Air Force managed to shoot down a Tu-22M3 strategic bomber that Russia uses to launch Kh-22 missiles.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the bomber crashed in the Stavropol region in southern Russia while returning to its base after carrying out a combat mission.
“The pilots catapulted. Three crew members were evacuated by rescue teams. The search is underway for one of the pilots,” states the military statement cited by the official TASS agency.
The governor of the Stavropol region, Vladimir Vladimirov, later reported the death of one of the crew members found by rescue teams.
Defense also points out that the plane did not carry missiles and fell in an unpopulated area without causing damage.
“According to preliminary data, the cause of the breakdown was a technical defect,” adds the official communication.
The Russians also fired 14 Iranian Shahed kamikaze drones into Ukrainian territory, which were all shot down by Ukrainian defenses.
BY: TTU
