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Between 12 May and 25 June 2022, at least 10 other Russian Kh-22 strikes in Ukraine, involving at least 44 missiles in total, were reported in the media. [ 16 ] On 27 June 2022, two Kh-22 or Kh-32 missiles, launched by Russian Tupolev Tu-22M3 bombers, were reportedly used in the Kremenchuk shopping mall attack , killing at least 21 people and ...
The missile that struck the building was a Kh-22 anti-ship missile, the same type used in an attack on a shopping center in Kremenchuk on 27 June 2022. [26] Ukrainian Air Force Commander, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk, said that the Ukrainian army at the time of the incident had no weapons to shoot down such missiles and that during the year of full-scale war, out of 210 Kh-22 missiles ...
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the strike used 63 Shahed attack drones (55 of them were shot down), 12 Iskander-M ballistic missiles, 40 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles (35 were shot down), 5 Kh-22 cruise missiles, 7 Kinzhal missiles, 2 Kh-59 missiles (both shot down), 22 S-300/S-400 missiles. The missiles hit Ukrainian energy facilities.
Ukraine’s air defenders say they notched up two significant firsts on Friday morning, taking down a Russian Tu22M3 strategic bomber and hitting two Kh-22 hypersonic cruise missiles in flight.
The attack targeted cities across Ukraine, including Dnipro, Kharkiv, Konotop, Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Zaporizhzhia, in what was possibly the largest aerial attack of the Russian invasion thus far. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said that [ 11 ] "we have never seen so many targets on our monitors at once."
According to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the attack was carried out by Kh-22 anti-ship missiles launched from Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bombers that took off from the Shaykovka air base in the Kaluga region. The missiles were launched over the territory of the Kursk region. [2]
On 11 May 2022, a video emerged on social media showing a Russian Aerospace Forces Tu-22M3 bomber launching two Kh-22 missiles at targets somewhere in Ukraine. [ 59 ] On 5 December 2022, a Russian Aerospace Forces Tu-22M3 bomber, identified as RF-34110 , was shown damaged as a result of a long-range drone attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine ...
Russian destruction of another Ukrainian recreational center in same district on May 9, 2022. According to preliminary information, three Tu-22M3 aircraft of the Russian Air Force flew from Volgograd Oblast to Crimea, [4] and after 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) fired three Kh-22s, supersonic anti-ship missiles designed for use against aircraft carriers, in the direction of the Bilhorod ...