Weak air defense and caliber missiles: in ISW ​​stated the inability of the Russian Federation to protect the rear from the shocks of the Armed Forces

This conclusion was reached by analysts of the American Institute for the Study of the War in the report of December 29. Russian military officials in response to estimates of the event on the exhaustion of high -precision weapons during massive missile strikes in Ukraine on December 29 stated that the Calibra Armed Forces will never end.

On December 26, the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine Kirill Budanov said that the Russians dream of going out for production of 20 caliber missiles for a month. "The Russian forces have greatly exhausted the arsenal of high -precision weapons, but in the near future they can continue large -scale threats to Ukrainian critical infrastructure, causing significant suffering civilian," ISW experts are convinced.

Frequent and effective strikes of the Armed Forces on military facilities far in the rear of Russia show the inefficiency of enemy air defense against drones, the experts are said. The Ukrainian forces attacked Engels Air Base with drones three times in December. Obviously, the invaders are already trying to fight air threats inside the Russian Federation, the authors of the report noted.

"There was a high demand for air defense headquarters near the front line in Ukraine, as well as the protection of strategic objects such as Engels Air Base," the report said. Repeated shocks of the Armed Forces in Engels can strengthen criticism in the community of military bloggers and journalists because of the inability of the Russian Federation Army to protect the territory from Ukrainian blows, stated in ISW.

"One well -known Russian blogger asked how Ukrainian UAVs and missiles overcome such distances and are" impunity "to the territory of Russia," the US military experts summed up. We will remind that on December 29 the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation staged another massive rocket strike in Ukraine. In the General Staff of the Armed Forces, it was estimated that the enemy used 69 winged missiles "Caliber", as well as X-101/X-555. The Ukrainian air defense forces knocked down 54 shells.