RUSSIA is blasting Ukraine with missiles made only a few months in the past as pre-war stockpiles are spent, weapons detectives in Kyiv say.
The freshly baked bombs embrace its devastating new Kh-69 stealth cruise missile.
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The high-tech weapons bear serial numbers which present they have been made as late as the ultimate three months of final yr, in keeping with bomb blast researchers.
Former colonel Andrii Kulchytskyi, a boss on the Kyiv Scientific Analysis Institute of Forensic Experience, mentioned: “We all know that they’ve run down stockpiles and are utilizing weapons produced whereas they’re preventing. Within the two greatest air assaults this yr, on January 2 and January 9, they used their latest rockets made on the finish of 2023.
“These are like freshly baked rockets going straight from the manufacturing unit to the entrance line.”
Andrii’s lab is stacked excessive with wrecked Russian rockets, missiles and drones.
They embrace the remnants of a Kh-32 missile which hit the north-eastern Sumy area in January.
It’s considered the most recent missile in Russia’s arsenal.
It had a “33” on its facet, indicating it was made within the third quarter of 2023.
The air to floor cruise missile – much like the British Storm Shadow – was solely unveiled outdoors Russia for the primary time in November, on the Dubai Air Present.
Consultants worry Vladimir Putin is getting North Korea to fill shortages.
A minimum of 20 North Korean missiles have been fired at Ukraine since December in an indication of Pyongyang’s willingness to replenish Moscow’s shortages.
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Consultants warned it’s a completely different story with dumb munitions like heavy artillery shells, which Moscow has in abundance whereas Ukraine is working low.
Michael Clarke, of assume tank Rusi, mentioned: “Russia thinks it can want 4 million artillery shells this yr and is predicted to get two million of them from North Korea.”
Yesterday, S-300 Russian missiles blasted a railway station within the jap city of Kostiantynivka.
One lady was injured.
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