On August 24, air raid alerts were heard very often throughout Ukraine. The invaders tried to prevent Ukrainians from celebrating Independence Day.
About this Channel 24told the military Armed Forces of Ukraine, People's Deputy Roman Kostenko. According to Kostenko, the Russian invaders tried to keep the Ukrainians in suspense by imitation sorties of their aircraft.
What the Russians wanted to achieve
thought out tactics in advance.
It was decided to shell specific targets. On August 24, the Russians fired at almost 60 settlements, including missile weapons, Kostenko noted.
The Russians also set as their goal to disrupt the celebration of the Independence Day of Ukraine.
“Russia is a terrorist country. Ukrainians really celebrated this day – each at the level they could. Soldiers in the trenches, and volunteers, and others also celebrated people where they are. And infidels tried to intimidate our people“, the military emphasized. APU.
How was the Independence Day of Ukraine
A record 189 alarms sounded in Ukraine on Independence Day . During the day the most air raid alerts were announced in the Kharkiv region – there the sirens worked 13 times. In the Kirovograd and Poltava regions, an air alert was announced 12 times.
On August 24, Russian aviation made about 200 sorties. But the frequency of missile strikes against aviation was low. According to the speaker of the Air Force Command Yuri Ignat, the infidels made only 8 real missile launches from aircraft.
During the day the Russians shelled 58 settlements. According to the police, this is a significantly higher number of shelling than is usually recorded.
A wave of fake substitutions has also swept across Ukraine. Telephone terrorists “mined” the railway stations in Vinnitsa, Rovno, Khmelnitsky. Anonymous reports were also received about the mining of objects in Lvov, Mukachevo, Dnipro.
Massive rocket attack on Ukraine
- Before Independence Day, the authorities warned Ukrainians about the likelihood of a massive rocket attack on Ukraine.
- As Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the President's Office, noted, the attacks on Ukrainian cities on August 24 were a little more than usual. At the same time, they were smaller than expected.
- Ukrainian political scientist Mykola Davidyuk suggested that Putin did not dare to shoot at Kyiv when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was there.
