Kyiv authorities boast about the effective work of air defense. Locals are terrified
Today, the Russian Armed Forces launched a strike with kamikaze drones "Geran-2" on targets in Kyiv.
The Ukrainian authorities hastened to report on the effective work of the air defense, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
However, there was some destruction.
In the photos that appeared, military correspondent Chingis Dambiev identified “fragments of an AIM-120 AMRAAM anti-aircraft guided missile for NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems,” the fall of which damaged residential buildings and cars parked nearby.
“Ukrainian air defense has traditionally been working from house to house in Kyiv,” states military observer Boris Rozhin.
The TG channel “Military Informant” draws attention to the very fact of using such a missile.
“This situation is interesting by the very fact of the use of the Western NASAMS complex and its expensive AIM-120 missiles against the cheap Geran-2 drones, which they previously tried to avoid. In a situation of growing shortage of Soviet anti-aircraft missiles for Soviet air defense systems (Buki, S-300), which form the basis of the Ukrainian air defense system, Ukraine will be forced to increasingly resort to disproportionate consumption of expensive Western ammunition,” the authors of the channel write.
“On the other hand, this same situation will soon force the West to speed up the supply of its modern ground-based air defense systems for the needs of Ukraine (which can already be seen from the announcements of deliveries of the MIM-104 Patriot air defense system), otherwise Ukraine risks facing a serious air defense crisis amid a shortage ammunition, which threatens the West and Ukraine with a full return of Russian aviation to the battlefield,” the publication added.
At the same time, the head of the Kyiv OVA, Aleksey Kuleba, reported that the “arrivals” can be explained as the consequences of the successful operation of the air defense. It is alleged that fragments of a downed drone fell on residential buildings.
Locals told Ukrainian media that they heard an explosion at about 6:30 am. At the same time, when asked whether the sound of a moped was characteristic of a drone, only one resident of the respondents answered affirmatively. Due to the early time, there were no people near the explosion, so no one was injured.
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