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The first month was the most difficult during the full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine. There were no pauses: immediately after the attack on Kyiv ended, it began in the Izyum direction, when it was finished on Izyum – the attack on Odesa began, and so on in a circle. This was reported in an interview with Ukrainian news media TSN by an anti-aircraft gunner of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, lieutenant colonel Denys Smazhnyi.

He also recalls the most massive missile attack in the last 5 months.

«Kyiv. The massive attack was both on the ground and in the sky. In 11 minutes, 7 planes were shot, almost the entire squadron lay down! It felt like a last-ditch attack. They came close to the defeat zone, we «clap» them. We destroyed a lot then, and after that, the air attacks on Kyiv stopped. They are their ‘elite’, their ‘invincible power’ and they have all been destroyed,» – he says.

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We will remind that on August 2, around 5:00 p.m., the Russian occupiers launched a missile attack from the Caspian Sea region. Seven of the eight missiles were shot down by anti-aircraft defenses. One rocket hit a military facility in the Lviv region.

Translated by Vitalii Holich

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