Near

Kyiv

, during a massive Russian missile attack on Ukraine, a ground-defense fighter shot down a Russian cruise missile from a machine gun.

This is stated in the plot of Obozrevatel.

One of the comrades of the Ukrainian defender says that green sparks flew from the rocket when it was hit.

The rocket fell in the middle of the field near the Ukrainian positions, the mass media reports.

"It's almost impossible, but it was done," the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine say.

It will be recalled that on December 16, Russian troops launched a massive missile attack on Ukraine, firing 76 missiles.

Ukrainian air defense systems 

managed to shoot down 60 of them

.

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