Ukraine Says Hit S-400 Air Protection System in Russia

Ukraine mentioned Wednesday it struck a Russian anti-aircraft system within the border area of Belgorod in a single day, as Kyiv’s assaults on Russian-controlled territory intensify.

Since Kyiv launched its counteroffensive in June, Russian areas bordering Ukraine have accused the Ukrainian military of virtually each day drone strikes and shelling.

An unnamed supply within the Ukrainian Safety Service supply advised AFP that its forces hit a “strategic air protection system close to the Russian metropolis of Belgorod.”

It mentioned this was the second Triumf system Ukraine had hit up to now month, after hanging one in Crimea in mid-September.

There was no point out of the assault in official studies from Russia, which mentioned its air defenses had destroyed over 30 Ukrainian drones.

“Air protection techniques on responsibility over the territory of the Belgorod, Bryansk, and Kursk areas intercepted and destroyed 31 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial autos,” Russia’s protection ministry mentioned.

The governor of Bryansk, Aleksandr Bogomaz, mentioned his area had been focused by a drone assault and cluster munitions however that there have been no casualties.

“There may be partial destruction of residential households and outbuildings,” he mentioned.

Additionally in a single day, the Russian protection ministry mentioned its air drive “stopped an try to penetrate the territory of Crimea by a touchdown group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”

The Ukrainians had been heading “within the route of Cape Tarkhankut on a high-speed navy boat and three jet skis,” it mentioned.

Ukraine posted video footage showing to point out what it mentioned have been a number of boats crusing in direction of Crimea, and mentioned it “inflicted hearth” on Moscow’s forces.

Ukraine has focused Crimea all through Russia’s offensive however assaults on navy installations there have not too long ago intensified as Kyiv vows to recapture the peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014.

Final month, Ukraine additionally launched an unprecedented missile strike on the naval headquarters on the peninsula.

Moscow mentioned that the assault left one Russian serviceman lacking, whereas Kyiv claimed that the strike killed 34 officers together with the fleet commander, Viktor Sokolov.

Moscow has denied the declare and has since proven footage of the commander attending conferences.