#air defense missiles

Russia’s overnight missile barrage on Ukraine on June 6, which the Kremlin touted as a retaliatory strike for recent Ukrainian attacks on its strategic aviation assets, appears to have backfired — both militarily and symbolically.

Ukraine was hit by one of the most intense air assaults of the war in the early hours of May 25, as Russian forces launched a devastating wave of 367 drones and missiles across multiple regions, killing 13 people and injuring more than 60 others, including several children.

Russia launched one of its most massive and sustained air attacks on Kyiv overnight, targeting the Ukrainian capital with ballistic missiles and drones in a seven-hour assault that left at least 15 people injured.