The United States has denied the allegations in a statement issued Friday stating “Similar, baseless allegations concerning Russia’s nuclear program have been made more than once. .
He said Russia’s failure to send troops to Ukraine did not seem to give Moscow more of a negotiating advantage, adding that in the past 24 hours Russian planes had flown more than 300 sorties over Ukraine.
Russia announced on Saturday that it had used him Kinzal supersonic missiles (dagger) to destroy a large ammunition depot in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of western Ukraine.
“It’s a little weird, to be honest with you, because it’s not exactly clear why – if it is true – why it would take a supersonic rocket to be launched from not so far away to hit a building,” the official said on condition of anonymity. of.
“Maybe with that they want to send a message to the West,” the official said. From a military point of view, he added, “this is not practical and very important.”
The US official did not rule out the possibility that Russia turned to higher-standard equipment due to the restrictions that the United States estimates exist in its supplies of precision munitions.
Russia’s Interfax news agency reported that this was the first time Russia had deployed the Kinzal missile system since sending troops to Ukraine on February 24.
THE Moscow is proud of its advanced weapons, and President Vladimir Putin said last December that Russia was a world leader in supersonic missiles, whose speed, flexibility and height make them difficult to detect and intercept.
However, Russia’s attack on Ukraine, which continues for a fourth week, has been delayed on many fronts. Moscow has failed to occupy a large Ukrainian city, much less Kyiv, or even to overthrow the government of Volodymyr Zelensky.
Thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and Russian heavy artillery has suffered heavy losses in tanks and equipment. Five Russian generals have been killed, and the loss of high-ranking military personnel in such a short period of time is unheard of in a modern war.
The U.S. official said Russia had failed to supply precision-guided munitions.
“They fail to fire or they fail to hit targets or they (ammunition) fail to explode on contact.
The US Department of Defense official described the attack in Ukraine as time consuming. Moscow’s decision to turn to long-range missiles and bombardment of Ukrainian cities with artillery “is a reflection που of what some say is a desperate attempt to gain some momentum and change the course of the war.”
“And that is why it is becoming more and more dangerous for civilians, because the more you use long-range fire … the more you will hit political targets,” the Pentagon official said.
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