The Ukrainian air forces announced on Friday the downing of a Russian strategic bomber, but authorities in Moscow indicated that the plane crashed in a sparsely populated area due to a breakdown after a combat mission.
Neither version could be independently verified. kyiv’s previous claims about downing Russian aircraft during the more than two years of war have been met with silence or denials from Moscow.
Separately, Russian missiles hit cities in the Dnipro region of central Ukraine, killing eight people, including a 14-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy, in addition to wounding 28 others, police reported. local authorities.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy repeated kyiv authorities’ almost daily calls for more Western air defense systems, again drawing parallels with how Israel thwarted a recent Iranian attack.
Missile and drone attacks can be intercepted, he wrote on the social network X: “This has been demonstrated in the skies of the Middle East, and should also work in Europe.”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba added: “Children should not die in airstrikes in modern Europe.”
Russian air forces are much more powerful than Ukrainian ones, but sophisticated missile systems provided by kyiv’s Western allies pose a major threat to Russian aviation.
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2024-04-29 16:24:21