Ukraine lacks air defense systems to protect entire territory from Russian strikes – Air Force spox

"Today, air defense systems are deployed where they are most needed, to protect large cities, infrastructure facilities, nuclear power facilities, and the front line. We don’t have enough air defense systems, to put it mildly, to cover such a [big] state as Ukraine with a dome, as Israel did," Yuriy Ihnat, Spokesperson for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, told Radio Liberty, Ukrinform reports.

Moreover, it is difficult for mobile fire groups to shoot down Shahed drones with small arms at night as they also fly along riverbeds using different routes, the spokesperson added.

As reported, enemy Shahed drones attacked Lviv city, western Ukraine, around 05:00 on June 20. Three drones hit a critical infrastructure facility.