Ukraine’s anti-aircraft defense “threw most of the missiles” fired by Russia on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, while his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, was informed about incidents at two air bases.
Bombing warning sirens sounded again in parts of Ukraine this morning after several Russian missiles landed in the south of the country, though Zelensky said most of them were destroyed by anti-aircraft defences.
“The air defense shot down most of the missiles. Power engineers have already started restoring power. Our people never give up,” Zelensky said on Instagram, referring to Ukraine’s resistance to a new wave of Russian bombing.
The Ukrainian Air Force backed Zelensky’s version and announced that it had shot down more than 60 of the 70 missiles that Russia had fired in the past few hours.
The first indications pointed to the launch of 38 cruise missiles sent by Russia from the Caspian Sea and the Rostov region in the south of the country, as well as 22 Kalibr cruise missiles, launched from the Black Sea.
The attack also involved Russian long-range bombers, fighter jets and guided missiles, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been informed of incidents at two airbases in the Saratov and Ryazan regions in the center of the country, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
“The president regularly receives information from the relevant services about everything that is happening,” Dmitry Peskov said.
According to several Russian media, two airbases, including one for strategic aviation used to carry out attacks against Ukraine, were rocked by explosions.
Russian media accuse Ukraine of being behind the explosions, despite the fact that both bases are hundreds of kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
kyiv has not claimed responsibility for any of the explosions and Russian authorities are investigating the explosions at military airfields.
“Three people were killed, five others were injured, two of them in serious condition,” a source at the airfield located in the Ryazan region, some 200 kilometers from Moscow, said in statements to the official Russian agency TASS.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine has already caused the flight of more than 13 million people -more than six million internally displaced persons and more than 7.7 million to European countries-, according to the most recent data. of the UN, which catalogs this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion – justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security – was condemned by the wider international community, which has responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing Russia from the political point of view and economic sanctions.
Source: TSF
