Last night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out group strikes by high-precision long-range weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles at the Ukrainian defense industry enterprises, workshops manufacturing strike unmanned aerial vehicles, maintenance, weapons and hardware repairing centres as well as ammunition depots of the AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine],” the Russian Defense Ministry reported, in a statement issued yesterday morning U.S. East Coast time.
The Kiev regime reported that the Russians launched 215 aerial attack assets to strike Ukraine on the night of 6-7 June, but claimed that 174 of them failed to reach their targets as a result of a combination of gunfire and suppression by electronic warfare.
The Ukrainians reported another mass strike aimed at targets in the Kharkov and Donetsk regions this morning, with 49 drones and 3 missiles, claiming that Ukrainian air defenses took down 40 of the drones.
Western pundits are looking for Oreshnik missiles as proof of retaliation for the June 1 drone attacks against Russian airfields and the terrorist attacks on rail infrastructure, but so far, the Russians haven’t used any. U.S. officials told Reuters yesterday that the U.S. believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threatened retaliation against Ukraine over its drone attack last weekend has not happened yet in earnest, and is likely to be a significant, multi-pronged strike.
