Photo: Air Command «West» of the Ukrainian Air Forces
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Over the past 24 hours, the Air Defense shot down three missiles in the Zolochiv district, the eastern part of the Lviv region. As a result, the grass burned, but the firefighters contained the fire. There is no threat to the residents of the district, nor are there any victims, the head of the Lviv regional military administration, Maksym Kozytskyi announced.
Air Command «West» of the Ukrainian Air Forces specified that during the air alarm yesterday at 21.39, Ukrainian servicemen destroyed two missiles of type «X» in the air at a distance of about 30 km from Lviv. As they report, a Russian fighter plane shot them from the territory of Belarus.
In general, sirens in the Lviv region sounded the air alarm two times during the day of March 28, warning of the threat of a missile strike. One more air alarm was turned on at 03.53 on the morning of March 29.
By Vitalii Holich
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