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Russian Hypersonic Missiles Target Ukrainian Su-24MR Aircraft Firing Storm Shadow ALCMs On Its Military

By

 Sakshi Tiwari

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July 27, 2023

Russian military reportedly fired Kinzhal hypersonic missiles to target the Ukrainian Su-24 fighter jets, days after Kyiv’s forces launched an unprecedented attack on Crimea using the UK-supplied Storm Shadow long-range missiles.

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On July 26, Russia launched a massive missile attack on Ukraine, with the majority of the missiles, including four of the country’s hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, being directed towards the Starokostiantyniv airbase (Khmelnytskyi Oblast), which is home to the Su-24M fighters of the Ukrainian Air Force.

The Commander of Ukraine’s Air Forces, Mykola Oleshchuk, said that the air defense of Ukraine had destroyed 36 hostile aerial targets.

The barrage of Russian missiles is believed to have targeted the Su-24M as these fighter jets are the carriers of UK-supplied Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles (ALCM) increasingly used to attack Russian territory.

It is currently unknown whether any of these targets had impacted the Starokostiantyniv base housing the Su-24M fighters. The Spokesperson of the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuriy Ihnat, informed that the missiles were launched from the direction of the Caspian Sea and flew into Ukraine from the southeast.

First, the missiles were directed toward Kharkiv, followed by Dnipro, and then to the Kirovohrad Oblast. After changing direction several times, the missiles were eventually diverted toward Starokostiantyniv in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast. The Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine Suspilne reported that explosions were heard in Khmelnytskyi Oblast.