Ukraine, for its part, assured that it had shot down 16 of the 28 missiles fired overnight from Monday to Tuesday by the Russians.
The Russian army said on Tuesday that it had destroyed several military industrial sites in Ukraine in a new salvo of night strikes.
“Overnight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a targeted blow… to key military-industrial enterprises of the Kiev regime,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in its daily statement, assuring as usual that “all targeted sites have been affected”.
“The military-industrial complex of Ukraine suffered significant damage,” he added.
Ukraine, for its part, assured that it had shot down 16 of the 28 missiles fired overnight from Monday to Tuesday by the Russians.
Three dead
Another missile, which was not intercepted by kyiv’s anti-aircraft defenses, however killed three people at an industrial site in Lutsk, a large western city. This site belongs to the Swedish giant SKF, specialist in ball bearings, which confirmed that three of its employees had died.
According to journalists from Agence France-Presse (AFP), another missile hit a kindergarten playground in Lviv, also in the west. The Ukrainian presidency also reported an affected sports complex in Dnipro, a city in central Ukraine.
The Russian Ministry of Defense also claimed that multiple attacks on the front line had been repelled, against the backdrop of a vast Ukrainian counter-offensive.
He added that Russian air defense intercepted four long-range SCALP missiles, which France said it delivered to Ukraine in mid-July. According to the Russian state news agency TASS, this is a first.
Source: BFM TV
