Russia’s Defense Ministry has said it had destroyed “T-72 tanks supplied by Eastern European countries” with high-precision missiles, but Ukrainian officials disagreed.
“Russian troops fired on the railway infrastructure again this morning. Four rockets hit the Darnytsia car repair plant,” said Oleksandr Kamyshin, head of the Ukrainian railway. “One of the railway workers was injured and treated.”
Since early May, Russian missile attacks have repeatedly targeted the country’s rail network, which has been used to supply Western weapons to frontline Ukrainian forces. Millions of Ukrainians have also used the rail network to escape fighting in the south and east for the relative security of western Ukraine and abroad.
The Ukrainian Air Force command said the Russian missiles appeared to have been fired from a Russian Tu-95 bomber flying over the Caspian Sea, several hundred miles beyond Georgia and Azerbaijan, and that their air defense units had shot down one of the missiles. .
The state-owned Ukrainian nuclear power company said the missiles had flown near its nuclear power plant in the city of Yuzhnoukrainsk, about 220 miles south of Kyiv.
“Russia committed another act of nuclear terrorism at 5.30am. A Russian cruise missile … flew very low over the nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.”