Russia, despite the fact that winter is over, may continue to shell Ukraine.
The representative of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuriy Ignat, warned that government buildings, the so-called “decision-making centers”, could be targets of the enemy.
They can shoot anything. They have priority targets – government buildings, buildings of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defense. That is, as they call them there, “decision-making centers,” he said.
Also, according to Ignat, the goals of the Russians are transport infrastructure, hydraulic structures and treatment facilities. Also, the enemy does not leave attempts to attack the Ukrainian energy sector.
Ignat added that government buildings are located not only in Kyiv, recalling the strikes of the occupiers on the Kharkiv and Nikolaev OVAs.
They can shoot anything. They have priority targets – government buildings, buildings of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defense. Also transport infrastructure, hydraulic structures, treatment facilities. Everything that can bring grief to people and an ecological catastrophe, – said Yury Ignat, a representative of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in an interview with Channel 24.
In a conversation with reporters, he also added that Ukrainian air defense can shoot down only a part of those missiles that are in the arsenal of the Russian army.
Ukrainian air defense can shoot down enemy cruise missiles, but has no means against ballistic missiles and other types.
Missiles that Ukrainian air defense can shoot down:
- “Caliber” (3M14) – a sea-based cruise missile (which the enemy attacks from the Black Sea);
- X-101 / X-555 / X-55 – air-launched cruise missiles;
- R-500 (9M728) – ground-based cruise missile (similar to “Caliber”);
- X-59 – guided air-to-ground missile;
- Kh-35 is an air, sea or coastal anti-ship missile.
Missiles that Ukrainian air defense cannot shoot down:
- 9M723 – Iskander-M ballistic missile
- 9M79M – Tochki-U missile
- MLRS missiles
- Kh-22 is a long-range supersonic cruise anti-ship missile.
- R-800 – coast-based cruise missile “Onyx”
- X-47 – hypersonic aeroballistic missile “Dagger”
- Kh-31P – aviation anti-radar missile.
Source: Racurs
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