The occupiers fired at Kyiv from Tu-95 and Tu-160 planes from the Caspian Sea

During the morning shelling of Kyiv, the occupiers used Tu-95 and Tu-160 aircraft. They were raised in Astrakhan, and missiles were launched over the Caspian Sea.

The spokesman of Air forces of Ukraine Yury Ignat reported about it, reports Babel.

He noted that the occupiers used X101 missiles.

"The occupiers fired at Kyiv from Tu-95 and Tu-160 planes with X101 missiles, which can fly a distance of up to 5.5 thousand km ," he said.

On the morning of April 26, the occupiers struck at the capital. They hit a house in the Shevchenkivskyi district.

One death is currently known. Rescuers managed to get a 7-year-old child and a woman out from under the rubble.

According to Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko, 25 residents were evacuated from the house and 4 people were hospitalized.

Another fell near the house on the territory of the kindergarten.

X-101 - strategic cruise missile class "air - ground" using technologies to reduce radar visibility. Developed by the design bureau "Rainbow" (1995-2013).

The missile is made on a new technological basis and has, according to Russian officials, exclusively Russian equipment.

Uses a combined guidance system. Can receive information both on a route, and on coordinates of the purpose.

Unlike previous-generation missiles, there is a fundamental possibility of changing the target when the missile is already flying.

The missile adjusts its route with the help of an inertial navigation system, a laser altimeter, and a homing head is turned on in front of the target. The mass of the X-101 warhead is 400 kg.

The missile can be high-explosive, penetrating, cassette and volume-detonating.

It will be recalled that the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that the occupiers have focused their main efforts on the Lysychansk direction and are trying to surround the city.

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