🛡️ Defense

Air Command Skhid (East) shot down a Russian guided missile in the sky over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast during an evening air raid on December 6, 2023.

Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
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Ukrainska Pravda Kyiv Post Censor.NET

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Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

This evening there was an explosion in the Dnipro district. That was our air defence shooting down an enemy target. Defenders from Air Command Skhid shot down a missile.

Kyiv Post → Source tone: certain

The organizer and two accomplices were identified as residents of Dnipro

Kyiv Post → Source tone: certain

They were charged under Part 2 of Art. 28 and Part 1 of Art. 263 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine for illegal possession of weapons and ammunition

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

Defenders from the East military group shot down an enemy missile near Dnipro.

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

Serhiy Lysak confirmed that explosions in the Dniprovsky district were caused by air defense systems engaging an enemy target.

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