Ukrainian soldiers from an air defense unit in western Zakarpattia Oblast downed a Russian cruise missile with a truck-mounted machine gun, Governor Viktor Mykyta said on Aug. 26.
The shoot-down, which was captured on video, occurred amid a large-scale Russian attack across Ukraine. As of 10:31 a.m. local time, at least three people have been killed.
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Mykyta said the missile was heading toward Zakarpattia Oblast from neighboring Lviv Oblast, and was shot down by the 650th separate anti-aircraft machine gun battalion.
Zakarpattia is located in the far western part of Ukraine, bordering Slovakia and Hungary to the west and Romania to the south.
Poland says jets scrambled amid massive Russian strikes across Ukraine
As of 10:09 a.m. local time, at least three people were killed in Ukraine, and strikes were reported in Odesa, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, Kremenchuk, Dnipro, Khmelnytskyi, Kropyvnytskyi, and Kryvyi Rih, as well as in Lviv, Rivne, and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts.
Nate Ostiller
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