Ukrainian Ground Forces shoot down Russian cruise missile with machine gun – video

A mobile firing group of the Ground Forces of Ukraine’s Armed Forces shot down a Russian cruise missile using a machine gun during a Russian missile attack on the night of 20-21 March.

Source: press service of the Ground Forces Command; Commander Oleksandr Pavliuk on Telegram 

Details: It is reported that a mobile firing group of the Ground Forces destroyed a Russian cruise missile on the approach to the capital with a Browning M2 machine gun during a nighttime missile attack on 21-22 March.

It is noted that this is not the first cruise missile shot down by this unit.

Background:

• On the night of 20-21 March, the Russians launched an attack on Kyiv with 2 Iskander-M/Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ballistic missiles and 29 cruise missiles, all of which were successfully downed by Ukrainian air defence units.
• Sources of Ukrainska Pravda report that the goal of the attack on Kyiv on the morning of 21 March was Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU).

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