The Polish Border Guard said on Twitter that the Russian Su-35 flew into the area without radio contact and performed "aggressive and dangerous" maneuvers.
"Aggressive" intercept: Romanian authorities said a collision nearly resulted when a Russian fighter jet intercepted a Polish border guard aircraft flying a mission above the Black Sea near the Romanian border Friday. The intercept also has likely caused a severe amount of uncertainty for Moscow, raising the question of whether Kyiv now has a sustainable countermeasure against hypersonic ballistic missiles, the source added. hypersonic missiles: The US has high confidence in the accuracy of Ukraine's claim that it used an American-made Patriot air defense system to intercept a Russian hypersonic missile, according to a source familiar with the matter. Ukraine has recently been harassing Russian forces in Crimea, where Kyiv's ultimate goal is to recapture the region illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014. In Crimea: Russian-appointed officials in the peninsula reported Sunday that their air defenses and electronic warfare units had fended off at least three Ukrainian drone attacks on Sevastopol. A Ukrainian official claimed some Russian troops are trying to leave the region disguised as civilians. In southern Ukraine: Russian-installed authorities said they are continuing to evacuate Zaporizhzhia residents away from the front lines in the annexed region, which could be a target of Ukraine's anticipated counteroffensive. Russian troops have incurred massive losses during months of bloody fighting in Bakhmut as they gradually wear down resolute Ukrainian resistance. In the east, an apparent backtrack: Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said his troops have advanced in Bakhmut and are waiting for ammunition supplies after he appeared to reverse his threat to withdraw from the flashpoint city. The Russians were also trying “to test and find out where the air defense systems are located,” she added. 
And they are also expanding their tactics because they do not have a stable stock of the means that they can operate with,” Natalia Humeniuk told local media. “They are trying to find a way around it. Sustained attacks: On Sunday, Ukraine’s Operation Command South spokeswoman said Russian forces were trying to exhaust Ukraine’s air defense system with repeated attacks.
The air force warned residents that “even a 100% intercept rate on air targets does not guarantee safety in areas where the air defense is operating! Fragments of anti-aircraft missiles and damaged UAVs always come back down to earth!” Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv city military administration, said in a statement that falling debris from intercepted drones had damaged residential buildings and cars in the capital's Svyatoshynskyi district.įalling drone wreckage also caused a fuel leak in the Solomyanskyi district, he added. “All 35 Shahed-136/131s were destroyed by the Air Command 'Center' of the Air Force, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Defense Forces." They used 35 attack UAVs, sending them in from the northern direction - the Seshcha airfield (Bryansk Oblast),” the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement.
“Overnight, on May 8, 2023, the enemy attacked Kyiv Oblast with Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 drones.
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