Expert tells when to expect another Russian missile strike
26 August 2024 19:00
Russians may soon launch another massive drone and missile strike against Ukraine. This was reported by "Komersant Ukrainian" with citing to expert Oleksiy Hetman.
This is because the Russian Armed Forces used only a third of the missiles they have accumulated recently.
“There had been no shelling for more than a month and a half, and the Russians had accumulated almost 200 missiles, so it was expected that the strike would be the most powerful. Why did it happen like this? Well, not because they came up with something else and decided not to attack hard. I think there will be a second wave,” Hetman said.
The expert does not deny that the Russians could launch such a strike even today.
Missile attack on Ukraine on 26 August: what is known
Another massive, combined missile and drone strike on Ukraine began around 3:00 a.m. with an attack by numerous attack drones. Up to a dozen of these drones (such as the Shahed) approached Kyiv from different directions. However, the air defence forces and means destroyed all the enemy drones on the outskirts of the city. And at around 5:00, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that the enemy had taken 11 Tu-95MS strategic bombers into the sky. The Ukrainian Navy recorded the launch of 4 Kalibr missile carriers, with a total volley of up to 28 missiles. Subsequently, the enemy took to the skies 6 Tu-22M3 strategic bombers, followed by 3 MiG-31Ks with Kinzhal missiles. This arsenal was supplemented by ballistic missile launches from Crimea and the western regions of Russia.
According to preliminary information, the main target of the complex, combined attack of all these numerous cruise, ballistic, aerial ballistic missiles and attack drones was infrastructure.
The Russian Armed Forces used
- x-101/55 cruise missiles from 6 Tu-95s (Saratov region and the Caspian region);
- zm14 Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea;
- allegedly guided aircraft missiles of various types from the Azov Sea, Sumy and Belgorod regions;
- x-22 supersonic cruise missiles from 6 Tu-22m3 aircraft from the territory of Kursk region of the Russian Federation;
- 9m723 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles;
- x-47m2 supersonic ballistic missiles of the Kinzhal complex from the Lipetsk region of the Russian Federation;
- UAVs of the Shahed and Gerbera types.
Lutsk, Stryi, Ternopil, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Dnipro, Poltava, Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and other settlements were under attack.
