On January 14, the Russian Federation hit Kyiv with experimental S-300 missiles – Budanov
The head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov told which Russian missiles hit Kyiv on January 14.
Budanov said this in an interview with Ukrainian Pravda.
So, on January 14, several explosions rang out in the capital, and after that the air-raid sirens were turned on.
According to Kyrylo Budanov, it was an experimental rocket launch from the territory of the Russian Federation.
– It was an experimental rocket launch. As far as I remember, this is a 48N6DM launch vehicle of the S-300 (the missile flies at a distance of 250 km and has a speed of 2.5 km/sec, – Ed.). They were stationed in the Bryansk region, and this was one of the first recorded such experimental launches. I emphasize that these are exploratory launches, – said the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence.
According to him, Russia cannot afford such launches in the future because it has nothing to make missiles from.
– This is the problem of the Russian Federation – they, like many other post-Soviet countries, cannot produce weapons samples in sufficient quantities. Several copies, please. But the series is difficult, – noted Kyrylo Budanov.
He stated that this missile only has a body, an explosive substance, and software of Russian production, and everything else is foreign.
– They have such a program – parallel import. In essence, this is legalized smuggling (from other countries). Control of such elements is a difficult task for the whole world.
You cannot control that, for example, company X purchased some Japanese-made controllers in the Czech Republic, and then sold a fourth through a conditional third country, and from the fourth it entered Russia without passing customs control. But all these processes made it much more difficult for them. Therefore, they cannot produce weapons in sufficient quantities, – said the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence.
Earlier, Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat said that on January 14, missiles flew to Kyiv from the north along a ballistic trajectory.
We will remind that on January 26, an enemy rocket hit a non-residential building in Kyiv.
