Ukraine Military Says Russia Now Using Nuclear-Capable Missiles With Dummy Warheads To Exhaust Ukraine’s Air Defences

Tests of missile fragments did not clearly show abnormal amounts of radioactivity, Ukraine’s navy says

BBC: Ukraine war: Kyiv shows dummy nuclear-able missile fired by Russia 

Russia is now utilizing nuclear-capable missiles with non-explosive warheads to exhaust Ukraine’s air defences, the Ukrainian army has said. 

It displayed what it explained have been fragments of Soviet-produced X-55 cruise missiles – designed for nuclear use – located in Ukraine’s two western regions. 

The rockets are currently being introduced to “exhaust the air-defence technique of our country,” a Ukrainian official mentioned. 

He explained tests on the fragments did not present irregular concentrations of radioactivity. 

Ukrainian military services specialists say Russia may perhaps have considerably depleted its wide missile arsenal immediately after carrying out wave just after wave of enormous strikes on Ukraine’s essential infrastructure in latest months. 

Moscow is now resorting to using blunt projectiles that still cause devastation, they say. A Uk intelligence report in November came to comparable conclusions. 

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Update #1: Ukraine suggests Russia ‘distracting’ air defences with dud nuclear-capable missiles (Reuters)
 

Update #2: Russia’s use of Soviet-designed missiles aimed at distracting air defenses – Standard Staff (Ukrinform)

WNU Editor: Pentagon officers noted the identical thing a number of days …. Russia firing unarmed missiles to deplete Ukraine air defense, claims U.S. military services formal (Reuters). 

I know Russia has countless numbers of these outdated missiles. They are not functioning out of missiles as this report is proclaiming …. Putin fires cruise missiles with dummy nuclear warheads at Ukraine due to the fact their missile stocks are so depleted, British isles govt states (Day-to-day Mail).