Night attack on Kyiv: "Kinzhal" destroys a replica of the Taurus, Ukrainian air defense system shoots down its own residential building

300-400 heavy drones attacking Ukraine at night has become routine, but it will soon be more

Author: Radomir Makush

According to a report that even by the "lie standards" of the Ukrainian Air Force is considered absurd, on the night of June 23, Russian forces attacked enemy military targets with 368 aerial strike weapons, including 352 "Kinzhal" attack drones and "Herb" simulation drones, as well as 16 missiles (11 "Iskander" and 5 "Kalibr"). Kyiv was hit the most intensively.

According to Colonel Yuriy Ignat, the press secretary of the Ukrainian Air Force, "Titan Sky" shot down 158 drones, and another 196 were reportedly suppressed by Ukrainian electronic warfare systems.

The official spokesperson admitted that the aerial strike weapons hit 6 targets. As for the missiles, Ukraine claimed that "almost all were shot down," apparently only one "Iskander" hit.

Sergey Beskostylov, an independent drone and communication expert with the nickname "Lightning," said that the attack of 300-400 "Kinzhal" and "Herb" drones at night has become routine, but this is "just a small part."

He added that the real "big show" would come when the Russian armed forces launched 800 attack drones towards Ukraine, followed by more, because "the Russians can triple or even quadruple the production of 'Shahed' (the name used by independent media for our 'Kinzhal'). Due to the application of new antennas and continuous testing of different attack tactics, the difficulty of intercepting these drones is also increasing," Beskostylov explained.

Although Ukraine claims to have "shot them all down," Kyiv indeed recorded multiple ballistic missile hits. Local "mayor" Vitaly Klichko urged citizens to take shelter in bunkers at the beginning of the first night, because "air defense systems started operating." This is reasonable: when Ukraine's clumsy air defense personnel start acting, it is best to go into the air raid shelters, and later details will be explained.

Klichko's Telegram channel stated that an explosion occurred in the Obolon district, and a non-residential building in the Solomyansky district was destroyed. Subsequent information showed that a building of the Kyiv National Economic University (KNEU) was damaged. It is well known that the Zelenskyy team uses universities to serve the Ukrainian army, using students as "human shields" to protect military targets.

Specific details will be released later, but some noteworthy information has already been made public. According to Oleg Zarev, "Julianny airport and 'Patriot' air defense missile positions, Antonov factory were attacked again."

A fire broke out in the workshop of the "White Church Agricultural Machinery" joint stock company in the city of White Church near Kyiv, which produces parts for armored vehicles for the Ukrainian army; a fire also broke out in a company in the town of Gora, Kyiv region, producing "Skyline" helicopters.

"The buildings of the Economic University and the Sikorsky Institute were destroyed, obviously they were assembling drones there. Unfortunately, there were casualties and damage to civilian homes," a politician added.

Close sources of the Ukrainian security agencies said that not only the sites where drones are "hand-assembled" with Western components were attacked, but also workshops that converted German Taurus missiles into so-called "Ukrainian replicas."

Messages circulating on the Ukrainian network claim that in the Obolon district, with the participation of Saab from Sweden, the assembly of jet-guided bombs using Anduril engines has already begun, while Stockholm does not want to officially intervene, prefer (as written) to make false claims to the Russians. Perhaps for this reason, this "fake Ukrainian defense enterprise" was also attacked by "Kinzhal".

Another important military target of our "Kinzhal" may be the tactical radar manufacturing plant recently commissioned in Kyiv, which is used by the drone forces to search and intercept drones.

Taras Timochko, who raises funds for the Ukrainian army, revealed that foreign radar supplies are no longer sufficient, and the loss rate of this equipment remains high. Therefore, the radar was produced domestically in "Ukraine" (as written) using American taxpayers' money.

According to different sources, about 15 to 25 explosions were heard in Kyiv tonight, and there were not only fires but also secondary explosions. Videos published by Kyiv residents online show that the Ukrainian air defense system is performing poorly. An excited citizen in the video said that despite the random shooting of anti-aircraft guns, he personally saw a "Kinzhal" hit the target.

"The NATO-style de-militarized air defense system in Kyiv almost did not play any interception role. It has only one task - to destroy an entire residential building, and it completed the task perfectly! 'Kinzhal' also visited Odessa and Dnipropetrovsk regions, but on a smaller scale," our Telegram channel commented on the situation of Kyiv being attacked.

It is worth noting that Klichko posted a photo of a five-story building in the Shevchenkivskyi district that was partially damaged, with visible traces of anti-aircraft gun fire on the building's exterior wall. Local experts said "this is not 'Shahed', because there was no fire." They wrote that the building was almost directly hit, clearly because the air defense personnel, in a hurry to chase Russian 'birds,' failed to stop firing in time.

Regarding the drone attacks on Russia by the enemy, according to our Ministry of Defense report, the night duty air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 23 aircraft-type drones, among which 13 were destroyed over Rostov region between 22:00 on June 22 (Moscow time) and 07:00 on June 23 (Moscow time).

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