British Intelligence: Russian attacks on Ukraine's grid will continue as long as planes and missiles
The authors of the document believe that after a break per month, Russia resumed intensive missile attacks in the Ukrainian territory, applying a minimum of a dozen Tu-95 bombers and MiG-31 fighters, releasing more than 20 missiles in Kiev. According to the defensive department of the United Kingdom, the cause of such a long break in the blows of Russian longitudinal aviation was the problems of management and planning.
It is not excluded that sanctions have limited Russia to access the key components for both aircraft and missiles, the ministry said. The successes of Ukrainian air defense have also probably led to difficulties in the planning of Russian missions. Considering this fact, British observers do not rule out that Russia will most likely continue to attack critically important objects, as far as planes, crews and arms stocks will allow it.
Such tactics will also become a tool for pressure on the Ukrainian government and the population. "It is a long campaign, in which tactical aviation, including fighters and helicopters, has limited influence on the overall conflict," the review said. We will remind that today, March 22, Russian troops struck a massive rocket strike on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine. It has already been called the most large -scale in the Cabinet of Ministers.