Intercontinental missile “class”RS-26 Rubezh“, set off from the Astrakhan region in the morning towards Dnipro in less than 5 minutes.
Analysis of attack imagery indicates that the RS-26 missile carried six independent warheads, each deploying several submunitions.
This package of warheads is intended exclusively for conventional attack, and each one of them can be nuclear.
The Ukrainian army confirmed in a statement that it had succeeded in shooting down six Cruise missiles Russia launched it towards its territory, but the circulating pictures prove the opposite.
By unveiling this missile, Russia is changing the qualitative nature of the conflict. The missile, which weighs 40-50 tons, is capable of flying a distance of more than 9 thousand kilometers.
Ukraine and its Western allies must now assess the destructive potential of this weapon, and understand that Russia is capable of delivering this warhead to any target in the world. Ukraine Or Europe knowing that there is no defense against it.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the West’s allowing Kiev to fire long-range missiles deep into Russia proves that it no longer needs Ukraine and has abandoned it.
For his part, military analyst Daniel Davis in the American magazine “National Interest” published an analytical article entitled Biden’s “Atakums” maneuver that could explode in the face of America.
“It doesn’t matter how many,” he said Long range missiles That we are sending to Ukraine, this alone will not change any dynamic on the battlefield, as Kiev has lost the war.”
He added, “The risk of expanding the war by allowing the use of our long-range weapons against Russia is reckless to the extreme, especially since this does not achieve any military benefit. Rather, this constitutes a great strategic risk of being drawn into war.”
In exchange for this escalation, the Ukrainian president returns Volodymyr Zelensky He resorted to the language of appeasement, stressing that Crimea could only be restored through diplomacy.
Zelensky added in an interview with Fox News that his country cannot afford to lose the number of lives necessary to restore this region by military means.
High risk level
In this context, Dr. Hassan Al-Qabi, a research professor in political economy and international relations at Bari-Saclay University, said in his interview with Sky News Arabia:
- Today’s missile was launched from the far east RussiaHe could have started from its west, but the message is clear.
- Russia today is capable of delivering the missile to any target inside or outside Ukraine.
- Moscow She tells everyone that she has multiple options, regardless of a tactical nuclear strike.
- Russia is waiting to enter Trump To the White House and the beginning of real negotiations.
- Today, no one wants to talk about the use of nuclear weapons.
- The American decision that allowed Ukraine to target Russia’s interior is like a third nuclear bomb it has dropped Washington On Kyiv, after Hiroshima And Nagasaki.
- This decision brings the world into a dangerous escalation phase.
- The degree of risk increased Europe.
