"On the night of August 6, 2024, the enemy fired four Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles at the Kyiv region from Russia’s Voronezh region, two Kh-59 guided missiles from the airspace over the Azov Sea, and 16 Shahed-type attack UAVs ... ,” the Ukrainian air force said on Tuesday morning.
It added that Ukrainian mobile fire groups, anti-aircraft missile troops and airborne electronic warfare units "were engaged in repelling the air attack," state news agency Ukrinform reported.
Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk said the country's air defence forces shot down "two Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, two Kh-59 guided missiles and 15 attack UAVs" in the Kyiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Khmelnytskyi regions.
Kyiv regional governor Ruslan Kravchenko said there were no direct hits to residential or critical infrastructure, the Reuters news agency reported.
The debris damaged windows in an apartment building, an office building and two gas stations in the region, Kravchenko said, as cited by Reuters.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, starting the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II.
Tuesday is day 895 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Source: IAR, PAP, Reuters, ukrinform.net, kyivindependent.com
