"Daggers" searched for Patriot SSK: why Kiev became the main purpose of the first rocket strike of the Russian Federation in 2024

The Russians refine the tactics of massive attacks: first they start a swarm of Iranian drones "Shahd" and empty rocket bolvanes. The "invincible" aerobalist missiles X-47M2 are also used. Focus found out what goals expensive shells could spend. The second day of the New Year in Ukraine began with a massive rocket strike of the Armed Forces of Russia. The main purpose for the enemy was Kiev and the region.

As a result of the explosions, the fire broke out in Desnyanskiy, Darnytsky, Pechersk, Obolon and Podilsky districts of the capital. 20 people were injured in the Solomenskiy district, said Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko. After the Russian attack, more than 250 thousand consumers disappeared in five districts of Kyiv, experts from Ukrenergo and Oblenergo promised to start repair immediately after the normalization of the security situation.

The explosions were also in the center of Kharkiv, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were struck in the city for up to six beats, including rockets "dagger". A total of 44 people were injured, among them five children, and a woman was also killed. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky wrote that as a result of the attacks of the Russians, 92 people were injured and four were killed.

The launch technology was similar to the previous attack on December 29, 2023, which was considered one of the largest full -scale war for the entire period. In front of the rockets, the Russian military launched about one and a half dozen Iranian drones-Kamikadze "Shahd" in the direction of the capital.

Further, 16 strategic TU-95MC bombers were released by groups of at least 70 winged missiles X-101/X555/X555/X-55 with almost 10 aerobalist missiles X-47M2 "dagger", notes the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny. The enemy attacked the Black Sea with three winged caliber missiles, and from the north-12 Iskander-M, S-300 and C-400 missiles.

It is noteworthy that one of the winged X-101 missiles, launched from the Caspian region, did not fly to Ukraine and exploded in the village of Petropavlivka of the Voronezh region of the Russian Federation. The cost of a dagger rocket starts from $ 10 million, it is a fairly expensive weapon and in Russia's troops it is in limited quantities.

Because of this, the enemy exactly chooses the most priority goals, says the focus Colonel of the Reserve, the expection of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vladislav Seleznev. "I think that from the last two attacks we can draw conclusions about the hunting of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for American anti -aircraft missile systems Patriot, which protect the sky over the territory of Kiev and the region," - comments the analyst.

Unusual and trajectory of rocket flight over Ukraine. Some went into the airspace over the Vinnytsia region, moved to Zhytomyr, and continued towards Kiev. Seleznyov draws attention to the fact that the Russians have chosen this tactic for the sake of deception of air defense operators. The enemy wants to create the most uncomfortable conditions for counteraction. "The goals, including the wrong ones, fly from all sides.

Remember the case as the Russian rocket entered the airspace of Poland and from there hit the infrastructure facility in the western part of the Lviv region," he emphasizes. Massive missile attacks on December 29 last year and January 2 are the results of Moscow's plans for which ammunition has been accumulated since September 2023. In the first wave, you can often see the launches of Shahd drones that distract the air defense and deplete them.

The trajectories of the drone flight routes are built to maintain the maximum presence in the air, notes the coordinator of the group "Information resistance", military expert Alexander Kovalenko. The sequence of strokes was synchronized to remove long pauses to replenish the shells. But sophisticated enemy tactics work poorly against the Armed Forces, which proves the statistics of the damage to the air targets with Ukrainian air defense.

Air Force and Units of Defense Forces of Ukraine destroyed 72 targets: "Another slap of Russian weapons. We see one hundred percent result regarding" invincible "X-47m2. And the fall of X-555 in the Voronezh region once again proves that Russian missiles do not undergo quality technical control, in They are sent to the military immediately by the military, "he says. Hunting for American Patriot air defense complexes will continue.

In addition to the pre-start of the drones, another scheme is used for distraction: the first missiles X-101/555 are allowed without combat units. These bolvanes have distracted attention. "The wave of pacifiers are full of battle missiles. This method was used on January 2," Kovalenko summed up. We will remind, in the evening of December 30, the Russian army launched six missiles C-300 in Kharkov, one of them hit the hotel Kharkiv Ralace in the city center.