Russian Kalibr Missile Smashes S-300 Sent to Ukraine by Slovakia

Russia said it destroyed an S-300 air defense system which was recently supplied to Ukraine by Slovakia using one of its Kalibr cruise missiles.

"On Sunday, April 10, on the southern outskirts of Dnepropetrovsk (close to Dnipro city), high-precision sea-based Kalibr missiles destroyed an S-300 air defense system hidden in a hangar, which was delivered to the Kyiv regime by one of the European countries," Defense Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said at a daily press briefing in Moscow.

Four S-300 launchers and up to 25 Ukrainian military personnel were also hit, he added.

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Russian troops also struck a repair facility near Velyka Novosilka settlement in Donetsk housing two air defense systems (Buk-M1 and Osa AKM) with high-precision air-based missiles. In addition, two ammunition depots, an S-300 radar, nine tanks, five self-propelled artillery, five multiple rocket launchers, and more than 60 nationalists were destroyed over the last night, Konashenkov said.

The Russian air defense systems downed two S-25 fighter jets and four UAVs, while a Mi-24 helicopter was shot down with concentrated fire from small arms.

Russia also hit 78 objects of Ukraine's military infrastructure, including three command points, illumination and guidance radars, three positions of short-range anti-aircraft missile systems and four ammunition depots.

He claimed that Russia has so far destroyed nearly 230 Ukrainian aircraft and helicopters, 243 air defense systems, 2,100 tanks and other armored combat vehicles and 239 multiple rocket launchers.