Ukrainian officials say the country's air defenses have downed 32 of 35 Shahed exploding drones launched by Russia overnight. us kprc2 click2hou russia ukraine
lasting around three hours, officials said, with Ukrainian air defenses shooting down about a dozen of them.
“There is a general lack of air defense assets to cover a country like Ukraine," according to Lviv Gov. Maksym Kozytskyi.Ukraine’s air defenses have been reinforced with sophisticated weapons from its Western allies, increasing the success rate at knocking down incoming drones and missiles. The counteroffensive has come up against heavily mined terrain and reinforced defensive fortifications, according to Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces.
Ukraine's deputy defense minister, Hanna Maliar, reported Tuesday that in the south, Ukrainian soldiers are advancing in some places but in others, “the enemy is advancing." She cautioned against measuring progress in the counteroffensive ”solely by kilometers or the number of liberated settlements," without stipulating what criteria would be more accurate.
Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to breach the dam earlier this month while under Russian control, according toSvitan said the Zaporizhzhia region appears to be the focus of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, seeking to smash through Russia’s land corridor with the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
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