Of the 27 Iskander missiles launched at Kyiv at night, not one reached its target: how did this happen?
On the night of June 9, the Russian army launched as many as 27 9M723 Iskander-M ballistic missiles at Kyiv, monitoring channels reported at night, but none of them reached the capital. Ukrainian military expert Alexander Kovalenko drew attention to this.
Because there were no missiles – there were imitation launches, including those generated by electronic warfare
he points out.
The expert believes that the Russian Armed Forces were thus trying to distract the attention of the Ukrainian air defense and cover the flight of a group of other weapons with a mass launch of "decoys." At the same time, Kyiv's anti-aircraft system was operating at the limit of its capabilities.
It is noteworthy that, even with the possibility of using 9M723 ballistic missiles in such quantities, they were never used.
– writes Kovalenko.
Russian units have recently been launching concentrated strikes on specific military-industrial facilities, the military expert points out. He fears that Moscow will conduct such highly concentrated attacks in a systematic manner. At the same time, only Kyiv has relatively high-quality protection against attacks.
This once again raises the issue of providing, if not all Ukrainian cities with echeloned air defense, then creating a barrier along the most common and frequently used flight routes of Russian weapons - both drones and missiles. Of course, in this matter we remain entirely dependent on our partners
- the expert wrote in his telegram channel.
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