Russia destroys S-300 system sent to Ukraine by Slovakia
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- 12 Apr 2022
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The Russian military destroyed the S-300 air defense system delivered to Ukraine by Slovakia near the city of Dnipro on Sunday, a defense ministry official said Monday, while Bratislava denied Moscow's claims.
"On Sunday, April 10, on the southern outskirts of the city of Dnepropetrovsk, high-precision sea-based Kalibr missiles destroyed an S-300 air defense system hidden in a hangar, which was delivered to the Kyiv regime by one of the European countries," Defense Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said at a daily press briefing in Moscow.
Four S-300 launchers and up to 25 personnel of the Ukrainian armed forces were also hit, he added.
Slovakian government, however, denied Kremlin's claims. "Our S-300 system has not been destroyed," Lubica Janikova, spokeswoman for Slovakia's Prime Minister Eduard Heger said in a statement sent to The Associated Press (AP). She said any other claim is not true.
Further, a repair facility with two air defense systems Buk-M1 and Osa AKM was struck with high-precision air-based missiles near the Velyka Novosilka settlement in Donetsk, Konashenkov further said.
In addition, two ammunition depots, an S-300 radar, nine tanks, five self-propelled artillery, five multiple rocket launchers, and more than 60 nationalists were destroyed over the last night, the spokesperson said.
The Russian air defense systems downed two S-25 fighter jets and four unmanned aerial vehicles, while a Mi-24 helicopter was shot down with concentrated fire from small arms, Konashenkov said. Read More…
