Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General Valery Zaluzhny said that air defenses had shot down 60 out of 76 Russian missiles fired at Ukraine on Friday.
A video shared on social media purportedly shows Ukrainian forces hitting a Russian cruise missile, amid claims from Kyiv that it had successfully intercepted the majority of rockets that Moscow fired at Ukraine on Friday.on Saturday, next to a video of a mid-air explosion in which shouts of approval can be heard by those filming the incident.
Missiles and shells fired by Russia are shown in this image from December 6, 2022 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Video released on Saturday purportedly shows a Russian missile being successfully intercepted by Ukrainian forces in the Kyiv region.Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General Valery Zaluzhny said that air defenses had shot down 60 out of 76 Russian missiles. Among them were 72 cruise missiles of the Kh-101, Kh-22 and Kalibr types. Four Kh-59 and Kh-31P were also fired, he added.
Ukrainian officials have said that nine energy infrastructure facilities and some residential buildings had been struck in the oblasts of Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia.
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