Ukraine presented a bomb capable of carrying nuclear weapons – “Russia is now hitting with them”

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The Kh-55 missile was developed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s to be used for strategic purposes – The purpose is primarily to carry nuclear warheads and be launched from a bomber aircraft.

The military of Ukraine stated today that found missile fragments launched by the Russians and they can carry a nuclear warheadwhich carried defective warheads, in western Ukraine, and that their apparent purpose was to distract air defense systems.

Mykola Danilyuk, a spokesman for the investigative unit of the Ukrainian armed forces, told a press conference that fragments of a missile that fell in the western regions of Lviv and Khmelnytskyi on October 31 were identified as coming from Kh-55 cruise missiles.

The Kh-55 missile manufactured by the Soviet Union in the 1970s to be used for strategic purposes. It is primarily intended to carry nuclear warheads and be launched from a bomber.

The official said a test on the fragments did not show abnormal levels of radioactivity. “This shows that there was no contact (of the missile) with nuclear elements,” he said.

The Russian Defense Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Danilyuk said the missiles carried unexploded warheads, one of which was displayed on stage at the news center in Kyiv where he was speaking. “It’s a substitute for a thermonuclear warhead,” he said.

Danilyuk said the Kh-55 had not been used by Russia in Ukraine before October 31. “The uniqueness of the discovered missiles was that they carried a non-explosive warhead,” Danilyuk said.

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Even so, Mr missile represents some degree of danger because of its kinetic energy and fuel, he added.

“This is evidenced by… the impact of a Kh-55 missile on a residential building,” he said.

“We can say that the launch of these missiles is intended to … distract the attention of Ukraine’s anti-aircraft system and exhaust it, while modern Russian rockets … are launched at critical infrastructure objects.”

Danilyuk also said that all the Kh-55 missiles that were discovered had their serial numbers erased.

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