Moscow Says Shot Down 4 U.S.-made Anti-radar Missiles Over Southern Russia

Moscow said Monday that its air defense systems shot down four U.S.-made missiles over a southern Russian region bordering Ukraine, in one of its first such claims in nearly 10 months of fighting. 

"Four American 'HARM' anti-radar missiles were shot down in the airspace over the Belgorod region," Russia's defense ministry said in a statement on social media, referring to a region that it says is regularly hit by Ukrainian strikes.

Belgorod is located 25 miles from the border with the neighboring country and has been subjected to shelling and mysterious explosions since the beginning of Moscow's invasion. 

Earlier on Monday morning, the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv was targeted by a new wave of Russian attacks using Iranian-made kamikaze drones, according to city officials.

"During the air alert, 23 enemy UAVs were recorded in the sky above the capital. Air defense destroyed 18 drones," the Kyiv city military administration said on social media.