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Russia has launched hundreds of deadly glide bombs at Ukraine over the last week as Volodymyr Zelensky called for better air defences to fend off aerial attacks.
Zelensky said Russia has fired 800 KAB aerial-guided bombs – winged explosives weighing up to 1,500kg – at Ukraine over the last week.
The KAB – the Ukrainian acronym for guided aerial bomb, are old-fashioned “iron” aerial bombs of the sort that were dropped by bombers during the Second World War and are particularly destructive.
In response, Zelensky said Ukraine needed to improve its air defences to help fend off almost daily aerial attacks launched by Russia.
“Ukraine is not a testing ground for weapons. Ukraine is a sovereign and independent state. But Russia still continues its efforts to kill our people, spread fear and panic, and weaken us,” he said.
Last week, Russia fired an intermediate-range “Oreshnik” ballistic missile at Dnipro, central Ukraine, in response to Kyiv’s use of Western-supplied long-range missiles.
“There is no countermeasure to such a missile, no means of intercepting it, in the world today. And I will emphasise once again that we will continue testing this newest system,” Mr Putin warned.
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