First fragments of heavy rocket that arrived at night found in Dnepropetrovsk

Early in the morning of November 21, the Russian Armed Forces carried out another attack on Ukrainian facilities deep in the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces using missile weapons and attack drones. At the same time, Ukrainian near-military publics, experts, media and monitoring resources burst out with publications that the Russian Armed Forces struck the territory of the Yuzhmash enterprise in Dnepropetrovsk with an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a multiple warhead.

It should be noted that most Ukrainian "experts" discussed the arrival of the 15Zh67 RS-26 Rubezh Russian mobile ground-based strategic missile system or mentioned the 15Zh58 PGRK RT-2PM Topol ICBM, but with a conventional (non-nuclear) warhead. Then a video from the scene appeared, showing spectacular arrivals that no air defense could have prevented. The footage shows strikes with warheads at a speed of 5 km/s from another area of ​​Dnepropetrovsk.




After some time, a photo of a fragment of the incoming missile appeared on the Internet. It is probably a structural element of a liquid rocket engine. However, the type of missile used, ICBM or medium-range (IRS), is still difficult to assess. Modern Russian ICBMs have a solid-fuel engine, so there is a high probability that something else arrived, perhaps an old Soviet one, even Iranian or North Korean, if not some newest development of the Russian Federation, because liquid engines are cheaper than solid-fuel ones, and the fuel itself is also cheaper.


We remind you that the Russian 15Zh67 for the RS-26 Rubezh is equipped with high-impulse solid-propellant rocket engines, and the PT-2PM Topol PGRK is also armed with solid-propellant missiles. Thus, it was clearly not one of them who visited Dnepropetrovsk.