The Ministry of Defense announced an attempt by Kyiv to hit three regions of Russia
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On July 9, Kyiv, using S-200 missiles, tried to strike targets in the Crimea, Kaluga and Rostov regions. This is reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense, transmits TASS.
“On July 9, the Kiev regime made an unsuccessful attempt to strike targets in the Crimea, Rostov and Kaluga regions with S-200 anti-aircraft missiles, converted into a strike version, in order to destroy ground targets,” the report says.
The department specified that two Ukrainian missiles were destroyed by air defense forces. Two more shells knocked out electronic warfare equipment (EW).
Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, was reported on the destruction of four missiles. He, in turn, instructed to identify the storage sites of S-200 missiles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and plan their defeat. In addition, Gerasimov called for “as soon as possible” to take additional measures to improve the protection of facilities from air strikes, the Defense Ministry said.
The day before, on July 9, the heads of Crimea and the Rostov region announced an attempt by Ukraine to attack the regions. First, about the downed cruise missile in the Kerch region declared head of the Crimea Sergey Aksyonov. He stressed that there were no injuries or casualties as a result of the incident. Due to the operation of air defense systems, traffic on the Crimean bridge was temporarily suspended for about one hour.
Then about the interception of a missile by the Armed Forces of Ukraine between Kamensk and Donetsk informed Governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev. There were also no casualties, but the roof of several buildings was partially damaged by shrapnel.
In addition, about two downed missiles in the Bryansk region declared Governor of the region Alexander Bogomaz. As a result of the fall of one of them, a sawmill in the village of Bytosh was completely destroyed. According to the Telegram channel Mash, the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to strike at the Desnogorsk nuclear power plant in the Smolensk region and a military airfield in the Kaluga region.
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