The military of Ukraine said that two Iranian-made Shahed attack drones and two surveillance drones were destroyed as a result of the bombardment of 30 missiles fired by Russia during the course of the previous night, including cruise missiles fired from the sea, air, and land.
Written by Chris Muhizi Minembwe Capital News 4:25pm Nairobi Kenya Time.
General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, the head of the armed forces, declared in a message published on the Telegram messaging service that “all targets over Kyiv were shot down.”
In nighttime airstrikes, Ukraine fired down 29 of 30 Russian missiles, although one civilian was killed in an attack on the southern city of Odesa, the Ukrainian military reported on Thursday.
During the ninth strike on the capital this month, black smoke covered the sky over Kyiv. There were minor injuries but no fatalities in the capital due to falling debris from missiles struck by air defenses that sparked fires in eastern Kyiv, according to authorities.
One person was killed and two were injured after a missile dropped to the ground after being intercepted by air defenses, according to officials in Odesa.
The hypersonic Kinzhal missile “hit a Patriot anti-aircraft missile system in the city of Kyiv with a high-precision strike,” according to a statement from the defense ministry.
A Patriot system, according to two U.S. officials, presumably sustained some damage but had not been destroyed. One of the sources said conversations on fixing the system were in progress and it did not seem the system would need to be withdrawn from Ukraine.
According to “Reuters” Hungery which is EU and NATO member, has refused to provide any military equipment to Ukraine.
Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, the head of Ukraine’s armed forces, had earlier claimed that his troops had shot down six Kinzhal missiles fired from planes, nine Kalibr cruise missiles fired from ships in the Black Sea, and three Iskander missiles fired from the ground.
It was the first time Ukraine claimed to have successfully fired a whole barrage of Kinzhal missiles, and if verified, it would be proof of the potency of its recently installed Western air defenses.