Russia uses inaccurate missiles from old Soviet stocks for the bulk of its strikes in Ukraine, which have recently doubled, a Ukrainian army general said.
30 Jun 2022
Russia is using inaccurate missiles from old Soviet stocks for more than 50 percent of its strikes in Ukraine, and the rate of the strikes has more than doubled in the last two weeks, a brigadier general in Ukraine’s armed forces has said.
Russian missiles have hit an array of targets in Ukraine in recent days, including killing at least 18 people at a shopping centre in the central city of Kremenchuk.
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Brigadier General Oleksii Hromov told a news conference on Thursday that Russia was trying to hit military and critical infrastructure, but that the use of old Soviet-era missiles that are less accurate was leading to significant loss of civilian life.
The brigadier general said 202 missiles had been fired on Ukraine in the second half of June, an increase of 120 from the first half of the month. He estimated that 68 civilian sites had been hit in the second half of this month.
His analysis diverged from that of some Ukrainian politicians who accuse Russia of deliberately striking civilians to sow panic.
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