In the morning of August 20, a loud explosion rang out in Dnipro. The commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valery Zaluzhny, said that air defense shot down 4 Kalibr missiles that the Russians fired in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Euromaidan Press and Ukrainian Pravda report.

remnants of Kalibr missiles fired by the Russians and intercepted by the UkrainiansPhoto: Twitter snapshot

“Air defense is working. Alarms are not ignored!” the Eastern Air Defense Command is located.

“The remains of 4 downed Russian missiles fell in the following areas of the Dnipropetrovsk region: Kamianske, Nikopol and Dniprovsky.

Work is being carried out to eliminate the consequences of the fall and assess the danger of the debris,” the command added.

The commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhnyi, said that to shoot down 4 Russian Kalibr missiles, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 4 missiles from the S-300 system.

After lunch, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, Mykola Lukashuk, showed the remnants of the Kalibr cruise missiles shot down by the Ukrainian defense and noted that fragments of one of the missiles fell in Pokrov and damaged 4 private residential buildings.

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