Ukraine will respond to one of the most massive attacks by the Russian Armed Forces on 26 August with weapons of its own production. This was written on his official Facebook page minister of Defence of Ukraine Rustem Umerov wrote on his official Facebook page, according to Komersant ukrainskyi
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“Last night, Russia attacked our cities again. Civilians were injured, houses were destroyed, and critical infrastructure was damaged. This proves once again that in order to win, we need long-range capabilities and the lifting of restrictions on strikes on enemy military targets,” Umerov wrote.
He added that Ukraine is preparing its response to the aggressor: weapons of its own production. The defence minister did not disclose details about what kind of munitions he was referring to for security reasons.
Missile attack on Ukraine on 26 August: what is known
Another massive, combined missile and drone strike on Ukraine began around 3:00 a.m. with an attack by numerous attack drones. Up to a dozen of these drones (such as the Shahed) approached Kyiv from different directions. However, the air defence forces and means destroyed all the enemy drones on the outskirts of the city. And at around 5:00, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that the enemy had taken 11 Tu-95MS strategic bombers into the sky. The Ukrainian Navy recorded the launch of 4 Kalibr missile carriers, with a total volley of up to 28 missiles. Subsequently, the enemy took to the skies 6 Tu-22M3 strategic bombers, followed by 3 MiG-31Ks with Kinzhal missiles. This arsenal was supplemented by ballistic missile launches from Crimea and the western regions of Russia.
According to preliminary information, the main target of the complex, combined attack of all these numerous cruise, ballistic, aerial ballistic missiles and attack drones was infrastructure.
The Russian Armed Forces used
- x-101/55 cruise missiles from 6 Tu-95s (Saratov region and the Caspian region);
- zm14 Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea;
- allegedly guided aircraft missiles of various types from the Azov Sea, Sumy and Belgorod regions;
- x-22 supersonic cruise missiles from 6 Tu-22m3 aircraft from the territory of Kursk region of the Russian Federation;
- 9m723 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles;
- x-47m2 supersonic ballistic missiles of the Kinzhal complex from the Lipetsk region of the Russian Federation;
- UAVs of the Shahed and Gerbera types.
Lutsk, Stryi, Ternopil, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Dnipro, Poltava, Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and other settlements were under attack.
