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Ukraine’s air defence has shot down 2,000 Russian cruise missiles or rockets since Moscow launched its all-out invasion of the neighbouring country more than two years ago, the Defence Ministry in Kiev said on Monday. “That’s a result of the titanic work of Ukrainian air defenders. Thousands of lives were saved by modern air defense systems provided by our partners,” the ministry wrote in a post published on X, formerly Twitter. However, the ministry did not specify how many rockets and cruise missiles managed to get past Ukraine’s air defence system. It also didn’t list the number of intercep…