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The Russian military has successfully struck yet another Soviet-made S-300PS long-range air defense system of Kiev forces, this time in the Odessa region.
Video footage of the strike against the air defense system, which was deployed close to the settlement of Ilyichevsk, was posted to social media on April 11. The footage shows what appears to be a precision-guided missile destroying the system’s 5N63S fire control radar, one transporter erector launcher (TEL), of the 5P85D or the 5P85S type, and damaging another TEL.
In addition, Russian media reported that some 20 Ukrainian officers and soldiers were killed in the pinpoint strike that destroyed the system.
Ukraine had around 100 S-300P, S-300PT, S-300PS and S-300V1 batteries in service prior to the start of the Russian special military operation. The country received a single S-300PMU battery from Slovakia in the very first few months of the operation.
Many of these systems have been destroyed, damaged or captured by the Russian military since the start of the operation.
In fact, this was the second S-300 system to be destroyed by the Russian military in less than a week. The first system, which was deployed near the city of Apostolovo in the Dnepropetrovsk region, was of the S-300V type.
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