Russia-Ukraine struggle newest: Kyiv says Putin’s experimental missile carried dummy warheads | EUROtoday

Russia has been hammering civilian areas of Ukraine with more and more heavy drone, missile and glide bomb assaults for the reason that center of the yr.

At the identical time, Russia’s military has largely held the battlefield initiative for the previous yr and has been pushing exhausting within the jap Donetsk area the place it’s making important tactical advances, in line with Western army analysts.

Ukraine faces a troublesome winter, with worries concerning the reliability of the electrical energy provide amid Russia’s assaults and the way a lot US assist it may well rely on subsequent yr after President-elect Donald Trump takes workplace in January.

Russian air defence methods destroyed 22 Ukrainian drones in a single day, Russia’s defence ministry stated this morning.

Of these, 10 of the drones had been destroyed over the territory of the southern Rostov area, whereas the remainder had been within the Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk, Bryansk, and Smolensk areas, the ministry stated on Telegram.

Dozens of British troopers have been drafted in to assist the US discover out who’s answerable for flying extra thriller drones over three air bases in England.

A small variety of drones had been noticed in a single day flying over RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk and RAF Feltwell in Norfolk, United States Air Force (USAF) confirmed on Tuesday.

Sources instructed the PA information company round 60 troops have been deployed to assist USAF in its investigation of the incident.

Nato members reaffirmed their assist for Ukraine throughout talks with the nation’s officers yesterday, held in response to Russia’s launch of an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile.

“The chief of the defence intelligence of Ukraine and acting commander of the air force joined the meeting online and briefed the allies on the details of the attack and its possible consequences,” Nataliia Galibarenko, Ukraine’s ambassador to Nato, stated in an announcement.

Ambassadors representing Nato’s 32 member nations had been briefed by senior Ukrainian officers after Kyiv known as a gathering of the Nato-Ukraine Council, a discussion board for cooperation.

“They emphasised to the partners that this outrageous attack was a blatant demonstration of force by Russia and a fruitless attempt to intimidate the allies,” she added.

Vladimir Putin stated Moscow struck a Ukrainian army facility with a brand new intermediate-range, hypersonic ballistic missile in response to the US and UK’s permitting Kyiv to strike Russian territory with superior Western weapons.

Locals in Kyiv go about their days, shortly after Russia launched 188 drones in opposition to most areas of Ukraine in a nighttime blitz.

The Ukrainian air drive stated it was a document variety of drones deployed in a single assault. Many of the drones had been intercepted, in line with the air drive, however condo buildings and demanding infrastructure such because the nationwide energy grid had been broken.

No casualties had been instantly reported within the 17 focused areas.

A Russian drone assault on Kyiv wounded three individuals, two of whom had been hospitalised, officers within the Ukrainian capital stated immediately.

Falling particles from a destroyed drone broken a non-residential constructing in Kyiv’s Dniprovskyi district, mayor Vitali Klitschko stated.

Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s army administration, stated that air defence items had been working within the metropolis after midnight.

The scale of the assault was not instantly clear. The strikes come after Russia launched a document variety of drones concentrating on Ukraine yesterday, slicing energy to a lot of the western area of Ternopil and damaging residential buildings within the Kyiv area.

Ukraine is withdrawing defective 120mm mortar shells from the frontline after a number of reviews of them misfiring, officers stated.

The provide of faulty shells is being investigated by an interdepartmental fee, Ukraine’s defence ministry stated, which stated round 100,000 Ukraine-made 120mm rounds needed to be recalled from the battlefield.

Several complaints and movies shared on social media confirmed the mortar shells not exploding or failing to hit their targets. Ukraine’s defence ministry confirmed the withdrawal of the batches of ammunition and stated it’s going to now present Ukrainian forces with imported shells.

Earlier this month, Ukrainian troopers stated the rounds didn’t explode, remained caught within the launcher or fell astray.

In an announcement issued yesterday, the FSB stated: “During counterintelligence work, the Russian Federal Security Service has discovered an undeclared British intelligence presence under the cover of the national embassy in Moscow.

A new ballistic missile fired by Russia at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro last week carried multiple warheads but no explosives, two senior Ukrainian government sources said. The deadly missiles caused little damage upon hitting targets in Ukraine’s east, they said.

Vladimir Putin said the Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile strike was a successful test and that it reached its target – a missile and defence enterprise in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

Their comments appeared to confirm the Kremlin’s own description of the weapon’s use last Thursday as a warning to the West after the United States and Britain allowed Ukraine to fire their missiles into Russia.

The two sources provided more details about the new weapon as Western experts try to learn more about what US officials say was an experimental intermediate-range missile.

Intermediate-range ballistic missiles are typically meant to be used for long-range nuclear strikes on targets thousands of kilometres away. One of the sources said the missile was carrying dummy warheads and described the damage caused as “quite small”.

The second supply stated: “In this case, (the missile) was without explosives… There were no types of explosions like we expected. There was something, but it was not huge.”