Russia is firing ageing cruise missiles stripped of their nuclear warheads at Ukrainian targets because Vladimir Putin’s stocks are so depleted, the Ministry of Defence has suggested.
An intelligence update from the British MoD on Saturday said the desperate improvisation by the Russian president’s struggling forces are “unlikely to achieve reliable effects”.
The evidence cited is pictures of apparently shot down AS-15 Kent air-launched cruise missiles, which were said to have been designed in the 1980s as a nuclear delivery system.
The convoy was reportedly targeted by the Ukrainian HIMARS back in September, but footage from the ground appeared only now. pic.twitter.com/2S9blxL85X
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) November 25, 2022
