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Moscow says it has bombed “warehouses of ammunition, weapons and military equipment delivered by Western countries”
May 16. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Russian government has claimed to have hit a US-made Patriot air defense system on Tuesday as part of an attack with a hypersonic missile against the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has indicated in a statement published on its website that “the Russian Armed Forces have carried out a concentrated bombardment with long-range and high-precision missiles against deployment points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as against warehouses of ammunition, weapons and military equipment delivered by Western countries”.
“All the designated objectives have been reached,” he stressed, before indicating that concentration points of “enemy personnel and equipment” have also been reached in the Kharkiv region (east) and that the activity of ” Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups” in Kharkiv and Lugansk, also in eastern Ukraine.
Likewise, he has highlighted that the Russian forces “have continued their offensive operations in the western neighborhoods of the city of Bakhmut” and has reported that “the most difficult situation” for the Russian troops takes place in Krasnoye, in Donetsk, where “they have repelled ten attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces”.
Finally, he has asserted that Russian troops have shot down two Ukrainian Air Force combat planes and have intercepted seven ‘Storm Shadow’ cruise missiles, recently delivered to Kiev by the United Kingdom. “In addition, 22 Ukrainian drones have been destroyed” in the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zapojiria regions, all of which were partially occupied and annexed by Russia in September.
Hours earlier, the Ukrainian Armed Forces had accused Russia of launching “a massive attack” against the country with the use of “various types of missiles”, although they stressed that the nearly 20 projectiles launched by the Russian Army have been intercepted. for its air defense systems.
In this way, they said that since 3:30 a.m. (local time), “the Russian invaders attacked Ukraine from the north, south and east with 18 missiles of various types launched from air, sea and land.” “Six Kinzhal ballistic missiles were launched from six MiG-31K aircraft, nine Kalibr cruise missiles were launched from ships in the Black Sea and three Iskander were launched from the ground by S-400 systems,” he detailed, before noting that “the 18 missiles were destroyed”.
