The Ukrainian Air Force published a spectacular video of the destruction of Russian cruise missiles using S-300PT SAMs

By: Maksim Panasovskiy | 12.09.2022, 15:30

On Sept. 11 at approximately 8:30 p.m. (EET), Russia took offense that its army had been kicked out of the Kharkiv region and launched several missile strikes against non-military targets in Ukraine. In particular, critical infrastructure.

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On the evening of September 11, residents of Sumy, Poltava, Kharkiv, and Dnipro regions began to report problems with electricity, water, and internet access en masse. It later turned out that the large-scale missile strike damaged Kharkiv's Heat and Power Station-5.

A total of six Kalibr missiles were fired by Russia from the Black Sea and six Kh-101 missiles by strategic aviation aircraft deployed near the Caspian Sea. Ukraine's Air Force units were able to destroy nine of the twelve cruise missiles due to the SAM-300PT. The command of the Air Forces has published a video of the combat work of anti-aircraft missile systems, which are in service of the Air Command "Vostok".

Source: Command of the Air Forces of the AFU

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