December 13 – downing of a Russian missile from an Igla MANPADS – UNIAN
A search team found its wreckage.
One of the cruise missiles with which the Russian invaders massively fired at Ukraine was destroyed from the Igla man-portable anti-aircraft missile system.
A video of the combat work of the mobile fire group of the Air Command “West” is published on Telegram by the Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It is noted that the rocket was shot down by the commander of the machine gun squad of the security platoon of the Galicia-Volyn radio engineering brigade, junior sergeant Vladimir Pshenichnyak:
“The downed missile did not cause damage to critical infrastructure. The crash site and the remains of the missile were discovered by a search team.”
In total, air defense units and aviation of the West Command destroyed 52 air- and sea-based cruise missiles Kh-101/Kh-55SM, “Caliber” and two…
