Ukrainian air defense forces shot down this Friday morning a ballistic missile launched by Russia against Kyiv. This is the first attack since September, as reported by the head of the military administration of the Ukrainian capital, Sergei Popko. “After a long break of 52 days, the enemy resumed missile attacks on Kyiv! The missile did not reach Kyiv, since the air defense forces and means destroyed it when approaching the capital,” he wrote in a message on Telegram.

The launch of the missile, according to preliminary data possibly of the Iskander type, took place this Saturday morning around 8:00 a.m. local time, after the night drone attack against the Ukrainian capitalwhich were all intercepted, has added. The commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Mikola Oleshchuk, has indicated in a message on Telegram that it is being analyzed whether it was a ballistic missile. Iskander-M or an S-400 guided missile.

Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuri Ignat, has indicated in statements to television reported by ‘Ukrainska Pravda’ that the explosions recorded this morning in Kyiv They were the response of the air defense system to the Russian attack with a ballistic missile. The head of the Kyiv regional military administration, Ruslan Kravchenko, has indicated, for his part, that two missiles hit a field between two settlements in one of the districts of the region without leaving any deaths or injuries. However, the shock wave damaged five residential buildings and left minor damage to commercial premises and a private company.

Intercept 19 of the 31 drones

Likewise, the Ukrainian air defense forces intercepted 19 of the 31 Shahed attack drones and one Kh-59 missile of various types of rockets launched by Russia during the night, as explained this Saturday by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

“The Russian Federation again attacked Ukraine by launching two Kh-59 guided air missiles, one Onyx anti-ship missile, one S-300 anti-aircraft guided missile, one Kh-31 guided missile and 31 Shahed 136/131 attack drones. The forces of air defense forces destroyed one Kh-59 missile and 19 unmanned aerial attack vehicles,” states the report published on Facebook.

The drones They were launched from Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Kursk, in Russia, and from the occupied territory of Crimea; the Kh-31 missile, from the Black Sea; the Onyx, from Crimea; and the S-300, from the Russian region of Belgorod, the Air Force indicated on Telegram. The message adds that the attack lasted between 7:00 p.m. local time on Friday and 3:00 a.m. last morning.