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Ukraine shot down four Russian cruise missiles and four kamikaze drones launched overnight, the Air Force reported on June 19.
According to the report, four Russian Kalibr cruise missiles were launched from a submarine in the Black Sea.
Serhii Bratchuk, the head of the Public Council under the Odesa Regional Military Administration, said that the cruise missiles targeted Odesa Oblast but were all destroyed.
Russia launched the four Shahed-136/131 from the eastern coast of the Azov Sea. On the morning of June 19, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor reported the downing of four Russian drones over the oblast.
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Martin Fornusek
News Editor
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 also volunteers 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.
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