Ukraine says it struck S-300 missile system in Russia's Rostov region

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's military said on Wednesday it struck an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system based in Russia's southern Rostov region overnight.

Kyiv's General Staff said the attack took place near the settlement of Novoshakhtinsk, and that S-300s had been used to attack civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.

"Explosions were observed at specified targeting points," the General Staff said in a statement. "The accuracy of the strike is being assessed."

Rostov governor Vasily Golubev said air defence forces had destroyed a Ukraine-launched missile over his region, but Russia's defence ministry made no mention of the incident in its daily statement on destroyed air weapons.

(Reporting by Dan Peleschuk in Kyiv and Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Andrew Heavens)