So far, full-fledged layered air defense exists only in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, says Kovalenko.
To protect against Russian attacks, every million-plus city in Ukraine must have at least one Patriot air defense system battery. This statement was made by military-political observer of the Information Resistance group Alexander Kovalenko.
As he explained in an interview with , each Patriot air defense system battery must have medium-range protection. We are talking about IRIS-T and NASAMS. In turn, these complexes must have short-range protection, such as Alvis Stormer, Crotale air defense systems, or the same “Buki”, “Cubes”, “Tor-M2”, “Osa-10” air defense systems and the like.
“That is, for every million-plus city a train of this type must be fully prepared. And this is the minimum. This is to create a kind of air defense umbrella over million-plus cities. And then, after million-plus cities, first of all, on the basis of cities -millions of people who are located at the front line, at the directions of the air defense breakthrough in our airspace from Russia, to create a security buffer,” Kovalenko added.
Currently, full-fledged layered air defense in Ukraine is only in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, the observer says.
Russian attacks on Ukraine: latest news
On the evening of Tuesday, January 9, Russian occupation forces launch missile attacks on Kharkov. Previously, the enemy fired S-300 missiles from the territory of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, said the head of the Kharkov OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
On January 6, Russian occupiers shelled the Donetsk region. The enemy hit a hospital in Pokrovsk with a rocket while a patient was undergoing surgery there. The moment of arrival was caught on video.
