The Ukrainian Air Drive says its anti-aircraft gunners shot down two Russian assault helicopters within the Kherson area, the place the Ukrainian army is at the moment engaged in a counteroffensive.
Ukraine’s Air Command South reported on Monday night that items of its Odesa-based anti-aircraft missile brigade had efficiently struck every of the helicopters inside three minutes of one another. The downed aircrafts had been Ka-52 Alligators, thought of to be Russia’s most dangerous and efficient assault helicopter, in line with Ukraine’s air drive. The reported victory comes as Russia has elevated its air assaults and Ukraine presses ahead with wresting management of its southern areas.
The air command mentioned anti-aircraft gunners had shot down the primary Russian Ka-52 Alligator helicopter at 6:45 p.m. and the second at 6:48 p.m. native time. The occasions couldn’t be independently verified by Newsweek.
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As winter approaches, Russia has launched waves of air strikes focusing on Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure, leaving swaths of the nation with out electrical energy. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and different officers have denounced the assaults as acts of “terrorism.”
Throughout a nationwide deal with on Monday, Zelensky mentioned authorities had been working to revive power and water provides to civilians affected by the strikes. He additionally reported that Ukrainian forces had defended themselves in opposition to Russian air strikes earlier within the day, capturing down 45 of 55 cruise missiles. A complete of 4 Russian helicopters had been downed, three assault Ka-52 Alligators and one Mi-8, in line with the deal with.
“At present our air forces and everybody concerned in defending the skies did an ideal job,” mentioned Zelensky. “Many of the objects that the terrorists recognized as targets had been saved.”
Ukraine’s Protection Ministry on Monday posted a video to Twitter of how one can flip a Russian “Mi-8 right into a flaming jack-o’-lantern.”
Monday marked the 250th day for the reason that bigger Russian army launched its invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Ukrainian forces in late August launched a counteroffensive looking for to dislodge Russia from the Kherson administrative district within the south, which borders the Black Sea and the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula.
Reviews emerged earlier this month that Russia was pulling troops again within the response to advancing Ukrainian forces. Kremlin-backed officers within the space have ordered evacuations of civilians and Russian forces are retrenching themselves on the east financial institution of the Dnieper River, within the Kherson administrative district.
Kirill Stremousov, a Kremlin-installed administrator in Kherson, informed the state-run TASS information company that Ukrainian forces had been repelled by Russian troops, who destroyed two tanks.
Newsweek reached out to the Russian Protection Ministry for remark.
