Yesterday, the terrorist organization Russia struck at the Dnipro Riverusing a ballistic missile. According to the Air Force and StratCom, for the first time in the world, Russia used an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to attack Ukraine. Today, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine reported more details about this shelling.
It is noted that the strike on Dnipro on November 21, 2024, was carried out by a ballistic missile, probably from the «Kedr» missile system. The missile’s approach time from the moment of launch in Astrakhan region to the impact in the city of Dnipro was 15 minutes.
The missile carried 6 warheads. Each of them was equipped with six submunitions. The published videos clearly showed 6 waves of attack, each of which consisted of strikes with several submunitions. Their speed on the final section of the trajectory was over Mach 11 (about 13.5 thousand km/h).
Tests of the «Kedr» missile system took place in October 2023 and June 2024 at the «Kapustin Yar test site, Astrakhan region. Various Russian research centers and enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex from Moscow, Voronezh and Volgograd were involved in the development of the complex.
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