Ukrainian Defense Forces shoot down Russian cruise missile with machine gun at night: Army commander shows video

Ukrainian Defense Forces shoot down Russian cruise missile with machine gun at night: Army commander shows video

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Ukrainian security forces shoot down a Russian cruise missile with a machine gun during a nighttime rocket attack on Kyiv.

During Russia's massive attack on Kyiv, a mobile firing group of the Land Forces  destroyed one of the enemy's cruise missiles on the approach to Kyiv with a machine gun. This was reported by the commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavlyuk, and published a video of the work of the fire group, UNN reports

During a nighttime missile attack on the approach to the capital, a mobile fire team of the Land Forces destroyed an enemy cruise missile with fire from a Browning M2 machine gun

- Pavlyuk wrote on social media.

He pointed out that this was not the first cruise missile shot down by this unit. 

Air defense forces destroyed 31 missiles during the night attack - two ballistic and 29 cruise missiles.