After complex maneuvers in nearby areas, Russian missiles simultaneously approached Kyiv from different directions.
After a pause of 44 days, the Russian army again launched a massive attack on Kyiv. The enemy traditionally uses Kh-101/Kh-555/Kh-55 cruise missiles from Tu-95MS strategic bombers along with ballistics.
A feature of today’s strike is the complex trajectory of the missiles. So, after maneuvers in the neighboring regions, they simultaneously approached the capital from different directions.
Russian tricks
“You probably saw that the trajectory of the missiles was complicated, they performed maneuvers, tried to bypass the air defense systems. Therefore, they worked all over the country,” explained Natalya Gumenyuk, head of the Joint Coordination Press Center of the Defense Forces of southern Ukraine, during the United News telethon.
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He also added that our military observed an increase in the activity of unmanned enemy reconnaissance on the eve of the shelling. In particular, the enemy tried to collect as much information as possible using the SuperCam.
“In general, the activity of unmanned reconnaissance, including in our area of responsibility, reached 147 units per day. This is a very high number. This is how they are trying to compensate for the absence of the A-50 in the air ,” said Gumenyuk.
At the same time, according to him, Russian ships were not involved in this attack.
“They’re at their bases. And they haven’t been out on patrol for two weeks. And the launch vehicles have been at the base for over a month,” he said.
“Battle Reconnaissance”
Electronic warfare expert Anatoly Khrapchinsky believes that today Russia fired “almost blindly” without the A-50 aircraft, which usually conducts reconnaissance on Ukrainian territory, to make it easier for the missiles to fly and bypass the Ukrainian air defenses.
“This is the first massive shelling after the downing of the A-50, we can say that it was a blind shelling, and as a result we saw that all the missiles were destroyed. The launches were from Volgodonsk, that yes, they did not go to the Caspian Sea, and this indicates that the Russians are trying to launch missiles closer and closer to the territory of Ukraine, because they already understand the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of their missiles are weakening, and they are trying to capture most of the missiles that flew into the territory of Ukraine,” Khrapchinsky told Apostrophe TV.
In turn, the veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war, reserve major Alexei Getman believes that today’s shelling in Kyiv is “>
“It’s a little strange, because they should have accumulated more than 100 missiles between launches in 45 days. So it’s obvious that they will fire sooner or later, but it seems that they should make it more powerful. Why so little that number of missiles? This means that, most likely, we will soon see another shelling, because it is difficult to predict the Russians in a different way, “said Getman on Radio NV.
Where is the enemy aiming?
Almost all cruise and ballistic missiles fired at the Ukrainian capital today were aimed at the facilities of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. This was reported by an intelligent source in the Main Intelligence Directorate for the publication Ukrainskaya Pravda.
“The absolute majority of missiles flying over Kyiv on March 21 were aimed at the facilities of the Main Intelligence Directorate,” the media source said.
According to him, all missiles were shot down by air and missile defense forces.
At the same time, instead of power steering facilities, the composition of the largest Ukrainian marketplace Rozetka was seriously damaged during the Russian attack. As a result, the building of the online store and the goods were destroyed, and the blast wave overturned the cars.
At the time of the shelling, there were 99 store employees on shift: none of them were injured, as everyone went for cover.
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