Russians getting ready to launch another "big" missile offensive against apartment buildings, schools, and museums in Ukraine.
Multiple Tu-95 Bear and Tu-160 bombers airborne and at least two Black Sea fleet missile subs active.
Explosions reported in Kyiv oblast and Dnipropetrovsk oblast.
Air defense systems are reportedly active.
No confirmed impacts, yet.
That's coming.
I don't want to be over confident here but it seems that all or almost all of the Russian missiles fired tonight have been shot down.
Ukraine's air defense was in pretty good shape as of yesterday, with some 90% of the promised equipment having been delivered.
Civilian casualties confirmed (25+ for now).
Russians bombers landing (launches are over).
We're quickly approaching the end of this strike (within 15 minutes or so of this toot).
Russian supporting social media very quiet so far.
@Render This feels a lot like “Saddam’s Scuds vs. Patriot Missile Batteries” from the first Gulf War.
@Render the Ukrainian people must be so weary. I don’t even want to imagine .. it hurts just to know and be unable to do anything about it.
Ukrainian Air Force claims to have downed 15 Kh-101/555 cruise missiles out of 18 launched by Russian bombers overnight.
The claimed air launched missile numbers are consistent with the number of bombers that took off, although a little low. This indicates that once again either not all of the Russian missiles fired, or some of the bombers took off with less than a full load.