Russia have moved 100 S-300 and S-400 air defence missile systems from Belarus in a sign that the “worse may yet come” for Ukraine.
There are fears that Vladimir Putin may be planning a larger escalation in the war in Ukraine and some have suggested that the Russian leader could be planning to use a “dirty bomb.”
A Russian expert told the Mirror, “Whatever Russia has in mind to inflict on Ukraine the Kremlin appears to be expecting retaliation on its own soil from Ukraine or the West.
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“Analysts believe with these missile moves done so rapidly, just prior to this week’s massive bombardments, the two are interconnected.”
The expert warned, “But more ominously they may indicate that worse may yet be to come and they are preparing for a big reaction to this activity.
“But more ominously they may indicate that worse may yet be to come and they are preparing for a big reaction to this activity.
“There has been talk of a dirty bomb.”
On Friday Moscow announced that Russian forces have started to re-equip a missile regiment in the Yasnensky administrative district in Russia.
A Russian state broadcaster said, that this will feature intercontinental ballistic missiles which are “equipped with a planning hypersonic cruise combat unit.”
In 2018, Vladimir Putin described the missiles in 2018 as being capable of moving towards targets “like a meteorite, a fireball.”
The Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement on Friday, “In the Orenburg region, work continues on the re-equipment of the Yasnensky connection of the Strategic Missile Forces to the Avangard mine-based missile complex.”
It was reported that Russia has raised the stakes in the war and “unscrewed” a “nuclear warhead dummy” and placed it onto a Kh-55 cruise missile and then fired it at Kyiv.
The “nuclear capable” missile which had the warhead removed was shot down by Ukraine and the country has been under a barrage of missile strikes in recent days.
The Strategic Communications Centre of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told local media the Defence Express that Russia installed a dummy nuclear warhead onto a Kh-55 rocket.
Ukrainian official said, “Simply put, for this strike, the orcs took at least one Kh-55 missile from their ‘nuclear arsenal.’ ‘unscrewed’ the nuclear warhead and replaced it with a dummy before firing it at Ukraine.
“Although we should not rule it out that as events develop, at least a few such missiles will be seen.”
