Mikoyan MiG-31K jets carrying Kinzhal missiles fly over Moscow's Red Square on May 9, 2018. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency)
Russian forces launched four kamikaze drones, three Kh-22 cruise missiles, and three Kh-47M2 Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missiles overnight, the Air Force reported on June 22.
Three of the Shahed-161/131 drones were shot down over Odesa Oblast but one of them managed to hit a warehouse building, said Serhii Bratchuk, the spokesperson for the Odesa military administration.
The Air Force reported that Russian missiles aiming at Dnipropetrovsk Oblast "did not reach their targets." None of the Kinzhals or Kh-22s were reported to be shot down.
Kryvyi Rih Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul however reported missile strikes in the city's Kryvorizka district that damaged 10 residential buildings, infrastructure, and other civilian objects.
Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press. He was also volunteering as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukraïner. Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies.
Ukrainian forces downed 406 out of the 458 drones, including Shahed-type attack drones, launched by Russia overnight, the Air Force reported. Russia also launched 45 cruise and ballistic missiles, nine of which were downed, the statement said.
Russia carried out a drone attack on the city of Dnipro overnight on Nov. 8, killing at least two people and injuring 12 others, including two children, officials reported.
Russia launched yet another wide-ranging attack on Ukrainian cities overnight on Nov. 8, using a combination of drone and missiles to strike targets across the country.
"We have received a full sanctions exemption for the Turk Stream and Druzhba pipelines," Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said. Reuters reported that the exemption was granted for one year.
"He was the head of a large system, and this system was supposed to ensure the security of our energy sector. He was obliged to do this — and he did not," the president told journalists on Nov. 7.
A farewell ceremony was held in Kyiv on Nov. 7 for for Kostiantyn Huzenko, a photographer-turned-soldier, killed in a Russian strike on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on Nov. 1.
In a closed-door briefing with journalists, Rustem Umerov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, and Oleksandr Kamyshin, an advisor on Strategic Industries to the President's Office, said that the current production capacity (for this year) of the Ukrainain defense industry is around $35 billion per year.
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