The night attack by Russia was one of the first attacks after a short lull. In the areas where the attacks took place, Ukraine lacks air defense systems that can effectively combat such powerful weapons as the Kinzhal missiles. This was announced by the Air Force spokesman Ilya Evlash during a telethon, according to a correspondent of UNN .
This is one of the first attacks after a short lull, when we saw relatively calm nights, when the enemy could not use weapons during the day or night . Over a period of time, they accumulated their reserves and missiles. This night, they already used Kalibr from the Black Sea.
In addition, he noted that the occupiers had raised their Tu-95 strategic bombers after shooting down the Tu-22M3.
The enemy struck quite powerfully, in particular, using hypersonic Kinzhal missiles. Unfortunately, this is a rather sophisticated weapon, it is quite difficult to shoot down. Only certain means that we have that have proven their effectiveness in combat, namely Patriot, can effectively counteract it, and unfortunately, in the areas where the hits occurred, we do not have enough of these systems that can effectively fight such powerful weapons.
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On the night of Saturday, April 27, Ukrainian Air Defense Forces destroyed 21 Russian missiles out of 34 launched.
The Russians fired, in particular, with 4 X-47M2 Kinzhal aerial ballistic missiles.
In particular, the enemy hit the energy infrastructure facility in the Frankivsk region.
There were also hits in Lviv region and in Kryvyi Rih.