FIRCULATION OF UKRAINE 16 February: The invaders struck critical infrastructure

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched missiles on Poltava, Odessa, Mykolaiv, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Kyiv regions of Ukraine. On the night of February 16, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a massive rocket firing of the territory of Ukraine. Air alarm was declared throughout the country, and in a number of regions the work of air defense was recorded.

At approximately 2:24, Telegram channels have information about the high probability of launching X-22 rockets from the Azov Sea. At 3. 02 the head of the Poltava Regional Administration Dmitry Lunin reported about the work of air defense in Poltava region. In addition, the mayor of Kremenchuk Vitaliy Maletsky reported the explosions, specifying that the air defense was working.

Telegram channels also wrote about the work of air defense in Odessa, Mykolaiv, Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Kyiv regions. According to Maxim Kozytsky, the head of Lviv O. , during the air anxiety, there was an object of critical infrastructure in the Lviv region, which the fire began. It was without victims and victims. Journalist Andriy Tsaplienko claims that in total the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation released 10 missiles in Ukraine, of which only 2 were real.

Others are models for distraction. "False goals are either rockets without a combat part whose task is visible to the radar and distracting the air defense, or the result of the work of HR-radio electronic struggle devices, ground base, or built into aircraft that create electromagnetic impulses that simulate the presence of goals in the air" , - explained Tsaplienko.

We will remind that on February 15 the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out shelling of the city of Pokrovsk of Donetsk region, during which at least 12 civilians were injured. As a result of the Russian attack, two neighborhoods were disconnected from electricity. Focus also wrote that on February 14, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation had struck a rocket strike on Konstantinovka and Kramatorsk. She got into a medical institution in the Kramatorsk rocket.