Russia has launched almost 8,500 missile, air strikes on Ukraine in past year

"Overall, since the beginning of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian occupation forces, almost 5,000 missile strikes and almost 3,500 airstrikes have been launched on objects in the territory of Ukraine. Almost 1,100 strikes have been launched using unmanned aerial vehicles," Brigadier General Oleksiy Hromov, the Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said at a briefing, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

Hromov added that the Ukrainian defenders had destroyed six enemy aircraft and two helicopters, shot down 80 cruise missiles and 84 drones this month.

As reported, on February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation began a new stage of the war against Ukraine – a full-scale invasion. For the year of the war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine inflicted significant losses on the aggressor, decimating almost 146,000 Russian invaders.