The anti-missile alert sirens sounded this Thursday morning in all regions of Ukraine, before a Russian attack took place which, according to the kyiv authorities, has been neutralized for the moment.
Nataliia Humeniuk, head of the Joint Press Center for the Pivden Operational Command (South), confirmed to local television that on “the morning of January 26 an anti-aircraft siren sounded on the territory of all regions of Ukraine”, predicting a new “large-scale missile attack”. According to Reuters reports, they have launched at least more than 30 missiles on the capitall, which have been intercepted by anti-aircraft defenses.
“Explosion in Kyiv! Stay in your shelters,” wrote the mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko.
“A new full-scale missile attack may be being launched right now. We are currently observing enemy strategic aviation activity from the Caspian Sea“, he specified. As he explained, the authorities have detected three missile carrier in the Black Sea that are ready to launch Kalibre missiles At any time.
Each of them carries a total of 20 missiles. Subsequently, the chief of the Cabinet of the Presidency, Andriy Yermakhas announced that, after sounding the alarms, the first missiles were intercepted, although it did not specify their number or over which areas they had been launched.
On the other hand, the command of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Army has assured this Thursday on its Facebook account that they had managed to shoot down 24 “kamikaze drones” Iranian-made on the night of January 25-26.
“The Russian occupiers resumed attacks against Ukraine with Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 kamikaze drones on the night of January 25-26. The drones were launched from the eastern coast of the Azov Sea,” the Ukrainian Army explained.
According to preliminary data, the enemy launched 24 Shahed drones. The 24 were shot down by anti-aircraft missile unitscombat aircraft, mobile fire groups of the Air Force in cooperation with air defense units of other components of the Ukrainian Defense Forces”.
The Air Force Command has reported that most of the “kamikaze drone” were destroyed in the center of the country. The Military Administration of the city of kyiv reported, for its part, the demolition of about 15 Shahed drones that were going to fall on the city tonight.
“The enemy again attacked kyiv from the air at night. About 15 enemy UAVs were shot down in the airspace. Previously,” said Serhii Popko, head of the Ukrainian capital’s Military Administration.
Source: Lasexta
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