Ukrainian aircraft strikes Russian strong points and anti-aircraft defence systems

Tuesday, 8 November 2022, 02:40

Ukrainian aircraft have carried out 8 airstrikes on Russian strong points, anti-aircraft defence systems and clusters of Russian military equipment in three districts in southern Ukraine.

Source: Operational Command Pivden (South) on Facebook

Quote: "The occupiers have taken hundreds of children with disabilities from a psycho-neurological institution in Dnipriany, Kherson Oblast, to Russia.

Children and staff of the Oleshky orphanage are being prepared for a forcible ‘evacuation’ to Moscow Oblast. Nursing home patients in Kakhovka have been relocated and the premises of the home are now being used to house Russian soldiers.

Occupation authorities are rendering life in the region impossible by cutting off power, water supply and mobile service.

The ruscists are continuing to loot, taking stolen valuables, food and cars to the Russian Federation by trucks."

Details: Meanwhile, Ukrainian aircraft carried out 8 airstrikes on Russian forces in the Beryslav, Bashtanka and Kherson districts, including 2 strikes on Russian strong points, 4 on anti-aircraft defence systems and 2 on clusters of Russian military equipment.

Ukraine’s Rocket Forces and Artillery have carried out 180 firing missions over the course of the past 24 hours.

Russia’s confirmed losses include 32 military personnel, a Strela anti-aircraft missile system, a tank, 2 howitzers, 8 armoured vehicles and an ammunition storage point in the Beryslav district.

Additionally, the operational command confirmed that a substantial amount of the occupiers’ fuel reserves were destroyed on the night of 5–6 November in Hola Prystan.

The operational command further added that Russian forces carried out around 50 UAV sorties in order to conduct aerial reconnaissance and confirm the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and adjust artillery fire.

In search of anti-aircraft defence systems, the Russians launched an air-to-surface Kh-31 missile from a Su-35 jet on the Bashtanka district in Mykolaiv Oblast. There were no casualties.

Russian forces deployed Grad multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) to fire on Kutsurub hromada [an administrative unit designating the village of Kutsurub and its adjacent territories - ed.] in Mykolaiv Oblast; there were no casualties.

Over the course of 7 November, Russian forces attacked the recently liberated territories in Kherson Oblast. They conducted 4 airstrikes in the vicinity of Nova Kakhovka and launched several S-300 missiles on Zolota Balka, damaging a school building, but sparing civilians.

The Russians deployed Lancet attack drones to attack several other towns and villages on the liberated territory of Kherson Oblast, striking an unpopulated area in Novovoskresenske (no casualties). A kamikaze drone has been shot down on approach to a target in Chervone.

The Russians have deployed Uragan MLRS to fire on the Nikopol district (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) twice over the course of 7 November. Private residential areas in Myrove and Marhanets hromadas have been struck, with several private yards damaged. There were no casualties.

Seven Russian naval vessels, including one dock landing ship but no missile carriers, are on standby in the Black Sea, manoeuvring along the Crimean coast. 

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