Russian forces launched 7 Shahed-131/136 drones and 6 S-300 missiles on the night of December 7-8, followed by 19 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles against Kyiv Oblast and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the morning of December 8.
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Russian forces launched 7 Shahed-131/136 drones and 6 S-300 missiles on the night of December 7 to 8
Russian forces launched 19 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles against Kyiv Oblast and infrastructure facilities in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
The Russians had fired cruise missiles from Tu-95MS strategic bombers on Ukraine.
19 missiles fired at Kyiv, where buildings were damaged by falling debris, one killed and eight injured in Pavlohrad and Ternivka, Dnipropetrovsk.
Preliminarily, 19 missiles (X-101 and X-555) were launched from 9 Tu-95 strategic aviation aircrafts.
14 cruise missiles were destroyed in Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
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