
Air defense units in the LPR. Archival photoMOSCOW, July 13The skies over Luhansk and the cities of the LPR are securely closed by air defense forces, Andrey Marochko, an officer of the LPR People's Militia, said on the Russia-24 TV channel. «It is impossible to exaggerate or underestimate the importance of air defense, because that for a month strikes have been carried out on the territory of the LPR with the use of tactical missile systems «Tochka-U», «Smerchs», «Hurricanes», «Gradov», HIMARS. 98% of these missiles are shot down,» the officer said. Not a single weapon gives 100% hit on the target, since there are errors and the human factor, but «for the most part, the air defense forces cope with their task,» Marochko noted. According to him, the cities of Luhansk, Alchevsk, Stakhanov, Lysychansk and Severodonetsk could become targets of new Ukrainian rocket attacks. for air defense, but Kyiv has terrorist tactics

