Never before has it rained so many rockets on Ukraine in one day as on Tuesday. Sirens are wailing all over the country in the early hours of the morning and the shelling is practically non-stop. The renewed missile strikes hit the whole of Ukraine hard and the energy infrastructure is damaged in many places. In the evening the lights remain off in many places. Half of the population of Kiev is without electricity, in Lviv that is about 80 percent.
“In total, we were hit with 96 missiles, two cruise missiles and ten Iranian Shahed drones,” Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat told Blick. “Moreover, the cities on the eastern front again became the target of further attacks and artillery fire. This shows once again: we are in the middle of a war, it is the result of the Russian offensive war.”
Ignat says the anti-aircraft defenses are mostly working. “We were able to intercept 75 of the 96 missiles fired.” 21 missiles hit Ukrainian soil. “21 missiles, each with 40 kilograms of explosive charge – these are powerful explosions. A single missile can paralyze an entire substation,” said the Air Force spokesman. “So this is an intensified wave of attacks compared to the attacks of the past few weeks.”
However, the Ukrainian Air Force managed to shoot down all Iranian kamikaze drones. In this way further damage could have been prevented. The information provided by the army spokesman cannot be independently verified.
“Clean Up the Incident”
Heavy shelling in Ukraine faded into the background on Tuesday amid a rocket crash in Poland. One of the Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles hit the village of Przevodov, right on the border with Ukraine. It was the first time a missile landed in a NATO country. The world was on alert. However, experts classify the two-death impact as an accident.
“In fact, we cannot rule out that it is a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile. But it could also be a Russian missile shot down by a Ukrainian anti-missile missile,” says Ignat. “The launch may have caused not one, but two missiles – one Russian and one Ukrainian – to have crashed in Poland. It is important that the incident is properly processed.”
Fighting Announcement
The Air Force spokesman clarified that Ukraine only shoots down Russian missiles. There is a good chance that missile fragments could also strike outside Ukrainian territory. “A few weeks ago, Russia violated Moldova’s airspace with two cruise missiles. Ukraine shot down the missiles, the debris fell over Moldova,” the spokesman said.
Ignat is combative: the shelling of Russia will not last forever. “They can’t shoot at us every day. They don’t have the guns for that. Russia wants to prove to the world something it can’t. Obviously, they don’t have as many missiles as they want.”