This is how Russia launched the Iskander missile, a “virtually invulnerable” weapon | VIDEO

The Ministry of Defense of Russia made public the images of the launch of an Iskander missile. The weapon would have been fired at an unidentified Ukrainian “special military target”.

According to the news agency RIA Novostithe Iskander is a short-range ballistic missile system that Russian forces have repeatedly deployed against Ukrainian cities, ammunition depots and other military targets.

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Iskander refers to high-precision weapons with a range of up to 500 kilometers. The warhead of such a missile can destroy almost any target: Enemy command posts, equipment columns and air defense systems.

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The Armed Forces of Russia continue to launch high-precision strikes with myriad targets of great importance to the military infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/7l14vJPqv1

— РЕВОЛЮЦИОНЫЙ СОЛДАТ (@AIex_Pinheiro) May 26, 2022

According to the explanation of the Russian Ministry of Defense itself, the weapon has ballistic and cruise missiles in its arsenal, which generate false electronic interference when approaching the target and they are practically invulnerable to enemy air defense systems.

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A cruise missile can go to ultra-low altitudes and go around the terrain, making it impossible to detect.

Russian attacks multiply in eastern Ukraine

In the last hours, Russia continued its offensive at various points in eastern Ukraine and launched air and missile attacks on infrastructure in various parts of the country. At least six civilians were killed in shelling, the Ukrainian Army reported.

A woman walks past a destroyed apartment building in Bakhmut, in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, on May 22, 2022. (ARIS MESINIS / AFP)

The Joint Task Force, as the Ukrainian troops deployed in Donbass, the region of eastern Ukraine that Russia seeks to conquer, is called, said in a statement that the enemy attacked 41 towns or villages in the last few hours. The attacks destroyed dozens of buildings, houses, a school, a railway line and other civilian targets.

In Russia, the Ministry of Defense indicated that the forces destroyed a Ukrainian military unit and all its equipment in an attack on a train station in the donbass. Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov said the planes bombed the station in the city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk province.

Source: Elcomercio