Hi, this is Asami Terajima reporting from Kyiv on day 1,344 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story so far: Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SSO) said on Oct. 31 that it had destroyed a Russian Buk-M3 air defense system and a Nebo-U radar in Russia's Rostov Oblast,

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Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SOF) have reported on an operation in which they destroyed a Buk-M3, the latest version of the surface-to-air missile system, and disabled a Nebo-U radar station in Russia's Rostov Oblast.