Russia’s military said today it had downed two US Patriot anti-aircraft missile launchers in Ukraine, with Kiev confirming a hit to the costly precision system while downplaying the damage it suffered. Ukraine has several Patriot systems handed over by its Western allies and uses them to counter daily Russian bombing. Russian troops “shot down two Patriot launchers,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in its daily report, but did not specify when. Yesterday, the Russian military released aerial video on Telegram showing an Iskander missile strike against a Patriot array in the Dnipropetrovsk region of central-eastern Ukraine. According to the same source, one launcher of a Patriot system was destroyed and another was damaged. AFP is unable to confirm these claims, nor the authenticity of these images. Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Igat confirmed today that […]
Source: News Beast
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