Russia-Ukraine War: A Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile crashed in Belarus

A Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile crashed in Belarus on Thursday, authorities in Minsk, a Moscow ally, announced.

“Today between 10 and 11 in the morning (4 and 5 in the morning of Argentina) fell on the territory of Belarus of a Ukrainian S-300 missile from the territory of Ukraine,” the press service of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko reported.

According to the Belarusian authorities, actively involved in the Russian military campaign in Ukraine, “the president was immediately informed of the fall of the Ukrainian missile”.

“By his order, a group of soldiers and investigators are working on the scene,” the source added.

Minsk made that clear “At the moment there is no information on the victims”analyzing the reasons for the missile’s impact: the entry of the projectile into Belarusian territory “similar to the recent incident in Poland, when the missile went off course” or the one that was shot down by the Belarusian anti-aircraft defense.

On Nov. 16, a Ukrainian missile veered off course and killed two people in a Polish town near the Ukrainian border.

Poland has called an emergency meeting with its NATO allies after Warsaw claimed it was a “Russian-made missile” attack on the village of Przewodów.

At first Warsaw feared that it might be an attack by the Russian army, but NATO later separated Moscow from the incident.

Ukraine shoots down missiles

Anti-aircraft defenses shot down 54 of 69 cruise missiles fired by the Russians on Thursday morning, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, Valeriy Zaluzhny, said.

“This morning the attacker fired air and sea cruise missiles, anti-aircraft guided missiles and S-300 surface-to-air missiles at our country’s energy infrastructure. According to preliminary data, a total of 69 missiles”. missiles. The forces and assets of the Defense Forces of Ukraine destroyed 54 enemy cruise missiles,” she said.

In his Facebook message, which includes Pravda Ukrainianhe reported it “The enemy continues to sow terror with missiles against the civilian population of Ukraine.”

Earlier, Mikhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, spoke of more than 120 missiles launched on the day by Russian forces on Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Air Force command reported a new wave of attacks by Russian troops from various directions with cruise missiles of strategic aircraft and ships.

Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said that, according to preliminary information from the Ukrainian Air Defense Forces, 16 missiles were shot down over the capital.

For his part, the head of the Odessa military administration, Maxim Marchenko, said Ukrainian forces had shot down 21 missiles over the region.

Meanwhile, the head of the military administration of the Mykolaiv region, Vitaly Kim, reported on the shooting down by the Ukrainian army of five Russian missiles over the Black Sea.

With information from EFE