With massive missile attacks, Russia and Ukraine are currently trying to destroy targets of their respective opponents before a Ukrainian offensive – Moscow also wants the missile defense system supplied by the United States to Ukraine patriot destroy. Ukraine, for its part, is using longer-range missiles supplied by Britain, and Kiev is also negotiating F-16-US-made fighter jets.
On the night of Tuesday, Russia has to Statements by the Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valery Zalushny attacked Ukraine with 18 cruise missiles and rockets. So would have Russian MiG-31– Fighter-bombers about six flying at several times the speed of sound kinshahMissiles fired on Kyiv. According to Zalushny, Russia also fired nine from warships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet that same night calibr-Cruise missiles from land and three missile types S-400 and Iskander-M. However, all 18 missiles and cruise missiles were intercepted. The Ukrainian Air Force also reported the shooting down of six Iranian-made drones. Already on May 4, Russia fired one kinshah aimed at the Ukrainian capital, which Kiev and Washington say was also intercepted – with the help of the Patriot-Systems, as explained by the US Department of Defense.
Moscow claims it destroyed 9,169 Ukrainian tanks. But she doesn’t have 1000
Moscow, on the other hand, presents the events differently, it claimed on Tuesday, one of his kinshah-missiles have one based in Kyiv Patriot-Defense system damaged. Of course, Russia also simply invents successes: on Monday, for example claimed Army spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Russia had destroyed 9,169 Ukrainian tanks so far. In fact, at the beginning of the Russian attack at the end of February 2022, Kiev only had 858 tanks, since then it has more than made up for its own losses by capturing failed Russian tanks, a year after the start of the war it had 953 tanks at its disposal, it says the London Institute for Strategic Studies determined.
According to Ukraine and the US Department of Defense, Kiev uses them patriotsystems – one near Kiev and another apparently near Dnipro – designed to shoot down what Russian President Vladimir Putin declared to be invincible kinshah-rockets. US officials said the television channel CNN, however, also that the Russian side could determine the location of a Patriot-Locate the system using the beams of its powerful radar. In addition, Russia recently hit Ukrainian targets, for example in Kharkov in eastern Ukraine or in Ternopil in western Ukraine: There, a huge explosion indicated that an ammunition depot could have been hit.
Kiev fires “Storm Shadows” at the occupied regions in the east
At the same time, the Ukraine is also increasingly attacking Russian targets – for example with those supplied by England Storm Shadow-Missiles that have a range of at least 250 kilometers. Previously, Ukraine could only use the US rocket launcher Himars attack, which reaches 80 kilometers far. One of the Ukrainians’ targets is Russian objects in Russian-occupied Luhansk, almost 100 kilometers from the front. Since May 12, Ukraine has had targets in Luhansk with it almost every day Storm Shadow– Rockets attacked, each of them carrying 450 kilos of explosives. British officials confirmed the delivery of these rockets the Washington Post.
Russia claims it has eight such as of Tuesday Storm Shadow– Missiles intercepted, but again skepticism is warranted. A Russian Military blogger confirmed on MondayUkraine have with Storm Shadows quarters of Russian soldiers destroyed. Russia’s military could use British missiles delivered by MiG-29– or Su-27– shot down by Ukrainian Air Force fighters, intercept only if it shoots down the planes themselves.
Within Russia, too, increasing attacks have been going on for months, some successfully: On May 13, for example, two Russians fell in the Bryansk region near the border Wed-8-Military helicopters and two fighter planes Su-34 and Su-35 away. The Muscovite commercialaccording to t they were on their way to bomb targets in Ukraine but were shot down in Russian airspace. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, according to President Zelenskij in Europe also spoke intensively about the delivery of modern F-16US-made fighter planes are being negotiated – and intensive talks are also being held with Washington.