The Ukrainian Air Force wrote on the Telegram messaging app today, December 4, that Russian forces launched 23 Shahed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) targeting Ukraine from the Crimean peninsula in the early hours of the same day, according to The Kyiv Independent . Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
In addition to UAVs, Russian forces also launched guided missiles from Russian-controlled areas in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
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Also according to the Ukrainian Air Force, 18 UAVs and a Russian Kh-59 guided missile were destroyed by Ukrainian air defense.
Several Ukrainian fighter jets, anti-aircraft missile units and mobile fire groups were used to repel the Russian attack. Air defense systems were reportedly active in at least nine Ukrainian provinces during the new Russian offensive, according to The Kyiv Independent .
A UAV flies over the Ukrainian city of Kyiv as Ukrainian air defense forces fire during a Russian UAV attack on November 25.
Meanwhile, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency today quoted the Moscow-appointed government in the Luhansk province of eastern Ukraine as accusing Ukrainian forces of attacking an oil depot in Russian-controlled Luhansk overnight using combat UAVs.
RIA also reported that the fire that broke out after the attack had been extinguished and there were no reports of casualties, according to Reuters.
In addition, Vyacheslav Gladkov, Governor of Russia's Belgorod region, wrote on Telegram today that Ukrainian armed forces had fired six different types of ammunition into the region in the previous 24 hours, according to TASS news agency. Gladkov also wrote that the new attack did not cause any casualties or damage.
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There is currently no information about Ukraine's or Russia's reaction to the other side's new accusations or statements.
US Secretary of Defense reveals military secrets?
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, currently Deputy Chairman of the Russian National Security Council, on December 3 commented on US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's speech at the Reagan National Defense Forum in the US on December 2 on social network X, according to RT.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin shakes hands with Ukrainian servicemen in the capital Kyiv on November 20.
“We have launched what the military calls the most ambitious modernization effort in nearly 40 years” for our defense industrial base, Austin said at the event, adding that about $50 billion from the administration’s supplemental budget request would be allocated to the U.S. defense industrial base.
“And that will create or support tens of thousands of good American jobs in more than 30 states. That includes building missiles in Arizona; vehicles in Wisconsin and Indiana; and artillery shells in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas,” Secretary Austin stressed.
Mr Medvedev later wrote that Secretary Austin's remarks were essentially an admission of Washington's real goals, and suggested that Mr Austin may have inadvertently revealed a real US "military secret".
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev inspects weapons production during his visit to the Aleksinsky Experimental Mechanical Plant in the town of Aleksin in Russia's Tula region on June 15.
Mr Medvedev wrote that Mr Austin had clearly revealed the real goal of long-term US support for Ukraine, and that this goal had nothing to do with defending “democracy” or even opposing Russia, but was focused on modernizing the US military-industrial complex.
As of the afternoon of December 4, there was no information about the US's reaction to Mr. Medvedev's comments.
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According to the Congressional Research Service, 50% of the $113 billion approved by Congress for Ukraine since the Russia-Ukraine conflict began on February 24, 2022, has gone to the US Department of Defense . The money is being spent to build up Ukraine's armed forces, largely by providing US weapons and military equipment and adding to US stockpiles, according to AP.
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