Ukraine’s air defense forces destroy 57 of 82 Russian air targets – Air Force
Russia launched 82 aerial threats at Ukraine overnight, with
Ukrainian air defense forces destroying 57, including 18 missiles and 39 Shahed
drones, the commander of the Air Force of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, Mykola
Oleshchuk, reported on
April 11.
Lviv Oblast was the main focus of Russia’s combined attack.
In total, the Russian military used:
- 20 X-101/X-555 cruise missiles from Tu-95 MS strategic
aircraft (launch area - Saratov Oblast of Russia)
- 6 X-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles from MiG-31K
fighters (launch area - Tambov Oblast of Russia);
- 12 S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles (launch area -
Belgorod Oblast of Russia);
- 40 Shahed-131/136 strike UAVs (launch area -
Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Russia and Cape Chauda, temporarily occupied Crimea).
- 4 X-59 guided missiles (launch area - occupied part of
Zaporizhzhya Oblast).
Fighter aircraft and anti-aircraft missile troops of the Air
Force, mobile fire groups, and electronic warfare units of the Ukrainian Armed
Forces were involved in repelling the Russian air attack, resulting in the
destruction of 57 air targets:
- 16 X-101/X-555 cruise missiles
- 39 strike drones;
- 2 X-59 guided missiles.
Russian massive attack on April 11
Russia attacked Ukraine with Shahed suicide drones, cruise
missiles from Tu-95MS aircraft, Kinzhals from MiG-31K, and guided missiles from
Su-34 overnight on April 10-11. Poland scrambled aircraft agaian during the
Russian attack on Ukraine.
At least 10 strikes were carried out in Kharkiv and the
region, and the city is experiencing new problems with electricity.
Lviv Oblast, in particular the town of Stryi, was also under
heavy combined strikes.
In Zaporizhzhya Oblast, a missile hit a power facility. In
Kyiv Oblast, a critical infrastructure facility was also attacked, and a fire
broke out at the facility, the regional administration reported.
Energy Minister German Halushchenko said that the power
system of four oblasts – Kyiv, Lviv, Zaporizhzhya, and Kharkiv – was hit. Two
DTEK thermal power plants were seriously damaged.
According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed
Forces, air defense shot down 37 out of 40 Shaheds in the early hours and in
the morning of April 11.
The head of the Lviv Oblast Military Administration, Maksym
Kozytskyi, said that Russia also attacked two critical energy infrastructure
facilities in Lviv Oblast with cruise missiles and Shahed UAVs:
- a gas distribution infrastructure facility in the Stryi district;
- a power substation in the Chervonohrad district.
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