The Ministry of Defense of Russia reported this Sunday several attacks against Ukrainian airfields in the west of the country with long-range, high-precision missiles as part of its response to the Ukrainian attacks on the Black Sea.
«Tonight the Armed Forces of Russia they made a massive blow with high precision weapons and long-range of air and naval emplacement against air bases of the Ukrainian Army in the towns starokonstantinivfrom the region of Khmelnitsk and dubnoof Rivna», declared Igor KonashenkovRussian Defense spokesman.
According to the representative of the Russian military department, “the attack achieved its purpose, all the intended targets were hit.”
The towns of dubno and Rivna They are more than a thousand kilometers from the war front and only 180 kilometers from the border with Poland. The region of Khmelnitsk it hosts a major Ukrainian airbase.
The head of the region’s administration, Sergiy Tyurin, assured that the Russian attack hit a corn waste warehouse, causing a fire that destroyed the building and affected an area of more than 1,400 square meters. An employee was injured in the fire.
For her part, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that “from the evening of August 5 to the morning of August 6, the Russian occupiers carried out a massive missile attack of air and naval emplacement and with Iranian assault drones Shahed-136/131».
During the first wave of the Russian attack, according to the Ukrainian side, 14 naval-based missiles were launched Calibrtwelve of which were shot down, and three missiles Kinzhal.
Subsequently Russia returned to launch drones and missiles Calibr from the south, to which were added cruise missiles X-101/X-555 «from strategic aircraft Tu-95M from the Caspian Sea».
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, all the drones were shot down, as were 5 of the 6 missiles. Calibr and 13 of the 20 X-101/X-555. “In total, the enemy launched 70 air shells,” the Ukrainian side said.
