Ignat stressed that on January 14, Russian troops hit Kyiv for the first time with this type of weapon. The missiles were launched from the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation, which borders on Ukraine.
Ignat specified that on January 14, the Russians fired more than 10 such anti-aircraft missiles in Kyiv and the region, which flew along a ballistic trajectory.
The representative of the Air Force recalled that the Ukrainian air defense system does not yet have the means capable of intercepting such missiles. At the same time, according to Ignat, the Ukrainian Defense Forces are working to counter such strikes by the invaders.
According to him, the entire front-line honor of the territory of Ukraine has already stays for half a year under the attack of such missiles (S-300), therefore, in fact, “nothing has changed.”
“Only the direction from which they first did this has changed – the Bryansk region. And quite from a long range. The S-400 hits more than 200 km. You need to understand that there is a threat from there, so you need to take certain countermeasures. there are few options for where to place them. I won’t say what needs to be done there, but steps are already being taken on this matter,” Ignat assured.
On the morning of January 14, the mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, reported on the rocket attack of the occupiers on the Dnipro district of the capital. In the Goloseevsky district, according to his data, rocket fragments fell on uninhabited territory. As a result of a missile attack in the Goloseevsky district there was a fire, it was liquidatedThere were no casualties, according to the mayor.
Critical infrastructure facility, warehouse, garage and two cars were damaged by a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, specified in the Kyiv city military administration. Also as a result of the morning rocket attack on January 14 residential building damaged (18 private houses) in the Kyiv region, said the head of the regional military administration Alexei Kuleba.
After the strike, an air raid was announced, which lasted from 9.35 to 11.03. Ignat specified that the missiles fired at Kyiv flew from the north along a ballistic trajectory, their type is specified. Later, he admitted that the occupiers could attack the capital of Ukraine with long-range modifications of S-300 or S-400 anti-aircraft missiles from the territory of Russia.
