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russia Defends Kerch Bridge with All Available Air Defense Systems, Including S-500, Pantsir-S1

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The Kerch bridge / Open source illustrative photo
The Kerch bridge / Open source illustrative photo

russian occupiers are using all available air defense systems, including S-500, S-400, S-300 and Pantsir-S1 to protect the Kerch bridge

This was stated by the spokesman for the Ukrainian Navy, Dmytro Pletenchuk on the air of the national telethon.

"The enemy is using all existing air defense systems. I'm not sure about the TOR systems, but we can see that they use long-range and short-range ones. These are such systems as S-300, S-400 and even S-500, and, of course, Pantsir," Pletenchuk noted.

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russia Defends Kerch Bridge with All Available Air Defense Systems, Including S-500, Pantsir-S1, Defense Express
S-500 Prometheus system surface-to-air missile system / Open-source illustrative photo

As for Crimea, according to the spokesman, it is "stuffed with air defense systems", "because it has not only a pragmatic meaning for occupiers, but also a symbolic one".

Earlier Defense Express reported that russian occupiers had placed rare modification of Pantsir SAM system on Kerch bridge.

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