Russian Buk-M3 air defense missile systems parade through Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow, Russia on May 9, 2022. (Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via Getty Images)
THE KYIV INDEPENDENT | Published November 16, 2024
A drone unit in the National Guard’s 27th Pechersk Brigade destroyed a Russian anti-aircraft missile BUK-M1 system worth $10 million, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko reported on Nov 16.
A Telegram video shared by Klymenko, whose ministry oversees the National Guard, showed the system being targeted at “one of the hottest areas of the front,” without specifying which exact area.
On the morning of Nov. 16, the General Staff reported that Russia had lost 999 air defense systems since the start of its full-scale invasion, which would make this loss Russia’s 1000th.
The Soviet-era BUK-M1 surface-to-air missile systems have been used by both Ukrainians and Russians in this war. Last year, Ukraine announced it had converted the systems to shoot American missiles.
Ukraine inherited Buk-M1 anti-aircraft systems from the Soviet Union, but the weapons typically use missiles that only Russia produces.
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SOURCE: www.kyivindependent.com
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It’s the latest disaster for one of the lead units in Russia’s eight-day-old counteroffensive in the oblast. Anticipating that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will lean on Ukraine to agree to an armistice that freezes the front line in place, Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin has ordered his troops to eject Ukrainian troops from Kursk before Trump’s January inauguration.
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The 2,000-person 810th Naval Infantry Brigade, backed by thousands of North Korean reinforcements, might be the hardest-hit. “The 810th brigade is bleeding right now,” one Russian blogger reported. “Every day [it] is sent on unprepared assaults” against the Ukrainian 95th Air Assault Brigade’s “persistent defense.”
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