The Russian Ministry of Defense on Monday claims that its air defense systems managed to shoot down at least 8 Storm Shadow missiles during one strike by Ukraine on targets in Crimea, TASS reports.

“On October 30, around 1:00 p.m. Moscow time, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to strike targets on the Crimean peninsula with eight Storm Shadow cruise missiles was foiled. As a result of the repulse of the attack by regular air defense means, all the missiles were shot down,” the Moscow Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

The announcement by the Russian Ministry of Defense on Monday afternoon came after the Strategic Communications Command (StratCom) in Kyiv reported earlier in the day that Ukrainian forces had successfully struck a strategic facility of the Russian air defense system in Crimea.

“On the night of October 30, the Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully hit a strategic object of the air defense system on the western coast of the temporarily occupied Crimea,” the message reads. On Monday morning, Telegram channels of Crimea reported loud explosions in Crimea. temporarily blocked the area of ​​occupied Sevastopol and the Kerch bridge.

Despite the fact that the Russian military has repeatedly claimed to have shot down UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles in Ukraine, the figure of 8 that is now circulating appears to be a record.

In May, just days after the British government confirmed sending such long-range missiles to Kyiv, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said it had shot down 7 units.

However, the independent website Oryx, which tracks casualties for both armies fighting in Ukraine, could not confirm, based on visual evidence and other public sources, that any Storm Shadow missiles were downed by the Russians.

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