“Anti-aircraft missile units, mobile fire groups, electronic warfare equipment were involved in the airstrike response“, stated Mykola Oleshchuk.
However, he did not reveal what happened to the three drones that were not slaughtered.The Kharkiv region, which includes the city of the same name – the second largest in Ukraine – borders Russia and is under almost daily fire from Moscow’s army.
In Kharkiv, at least four people were injured following Russian attacks.
According to the governor of the Kharkiv region, the “injured people were 55, 56 and 64 years old”.
A Russia has intensified mass bombings against Ukraine, especially since last week, presenting them as retaliation. The Russian attacks inflicted significant damage on civilian infrastructure, particularly the electrical grid that supplies Kharkiv.
Moscow revealed that it had shot down Ukrainian missiles in one of the border regions. According to the Russian army, 18 missiles fired by Ukraine over the Belgorod region were “destroyed”.
Regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a man was injured “by shrapnel” in this border region, which has recently been the target of numerous terrorist attacks. drones Ukrainians.
Nonetheless, NATO is considering shooting down Russian missiles that come close to Atlantic Alliance countriesrevealed the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrzej Szejna.
“Russia knew that if the missile got any closer to Poland, it would be shot down. There would be a counterattack”, the official stressed.
The Polish Armed Forces said Russia violated Polish airspace on Sunday morning with a cruise missile launched at targets in western Ukraine.
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