(Dan Tri) – Ukraine’s air defense issued a red warning about the risk of air strikes after detecting a MiG-31K fighter carrying Kinzhal missiles and a series of Russian UAVs that had launched flights.
MiG-31K fighter carrying Russia’s Kinzhal hypersonic missile (Illustration: Telegraph).
Ukrainska Pravda reported that at 4:51 a.m. on March 29 local time, Ukraine’s air defense issued an emergency warning saying that MiG-31K fighters carrying Kinzhal `Dagger` hypersonic missiles took off from
At around 4:00 a.m. on March 29, Ukraine confirmed that cruise missiles were fired from the Tu-95MS aircraft.
Previously, the Ukrainian military announced that Russia had conducted a large-scale air strike and said that attack UAVs and missiles were on the way.
Specifically, on the night of March 28, the Russian military launched a series of drones to attack Ukraine in many directions.
The Ukrainian Air Force on Telegram said the threat was reported in Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Poltava.
In the first warning issued at 9:57 p.m. on March 28, the Ukrainian army said enemy attack UAVs were moving in the Poltava region in the direction of Cherkasy;
In addition, enemy UAVs appeared at the administrative border of Zaporizhia and Dnepropetrovsk regions flying west, a group of UAVs from Kherson was moving towards Dnepropetrovsk.
Ukraine issued an emergency air strike warning across the country due to the risk of being attacked by Russian UAVs and missiles (Photo: UP).
At 11:11 p.m., the threat of a UAV attack was reported in the Kiev region.
At 11:35 p.m., guided missiles were reported over Dnepropetrovsk in the north direction, then more missiles flew towards Kamyanskoye.
At 00:05 on March 29, attack UAVs appeared from Nikolaev and Kirovograd in the direction of Vinnytsia.
At 1:27, the Ukrainian Air Force updated the direction of movement of the attacking UAV: Khmelnitsky region – UAV in the west;
By 1:50 a.m., a missile threat appeared in the Kharkov area, followed by the activity of Russian tactical aircraft in the east.
At 2:25 a.m., the Ukrainian Air Force updated the developments of attack UAVs: Ternopil region – movement of attack UAVs in the west direction;
At 3:48, there was a missile danger in the Sumy and Chernihiv regions.
Next, a series of cruise missile warnings appeared in Kharkov, Dnieper, Sumy, Poltava, Cherkasy, Kiev, then Vinnytsia, Lvov, Zhytomyr.
The latest warning is that at 4:55 a.m., the MiG-31K sortied and may have launched the Kinzhal hypersonic missile.
Information about the raid and its consequences continues to be updated.
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