Overnight into 23 June, Russian strategic aviation carried out another missile attack against Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force Command says the attack targeted a military airfield in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, but air defenses destroyed all 13 missiles.
“Four [Russian] Tu-95MS bombers launched [the missiles] from the Caspian Sea around midnight. All 13 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles were destroyed by air defense, most of them in Khmelnytskyi Oblast. In addition, the defenders of the sky destroyed a reconnaissance UAV of an unidentified type,” the report reads.
Also, an air defense unit by the Air Force destroyed a Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter in the Donetsk direction at about 5 a.m., according to the Command.
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