Video Shows Russian Cruise Missile Blasted Out of Sky Near Kyiv

Video Shows Russian Cruise Missile Blasted Out of Sky Near Kyiv

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"Shooting down a cruise missile over Kyiv region," tweeted Ukrainian internal affairs adviser Anton Gerashchenko on Saturday, next to a video of a mid-air explosion in which shouts of approval can be heard by those filming the incident. Newsweek has contacted the Russian defense ministry for comment.

The clip was tweeted after a barrage of Russian rockets targeted Ukraine's infrastructure, which Ukrainian authorities said had mostly been intercepted. The Kyiv City Military Administration said on Friday that Ukrainian forces had destroyed 37 of 40 missiles that had targeted the capital.

Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General Valery Zaluzhny said that air defenses had shot down 60 out of 76 Russian missiles. Among them were 72 cruise missiles of the (Khinzhal) Kh-101, Kh-22 and Kalibr types. Four Kh-59 and Kh-31P were also fired, he added.

Ukrainian officials have said that nine energy infrastructure facilities and some residential buildings had been struck in the oblasts of Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia. They also said that Russian forces had launched most of their missiles from the Black and Caspian seas as well as the Engels airfield in Russia's Saratov Oblast.

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