““Russia, using the war, conducted a test study of a new missile complex in combat conditions. This is a research and combat use””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“If this is research and combat use, then there will be at least ten missiles. In order to launch a rocket into mass production, a minimum of ten tests must be conducted. We saw this on the sea-based Bulava, when half of the launches were successful and half were unsuccessful,” he said.
According to Skibitskyi, “at the place of arrival of the ballistic missile, its fragments and fragments of telemetry, which is used to record all parameters of the missile’s flight and all its systems, were found.”
“Russia, using the war, conducted a test study of a new missile complex in combat conditions. This is research and combat use,” he said.
Skibitsky said that “in 2018-2019, the Russian Federation started a new research and development project, which was called “Kedr RV”. This work was aimed at the development of a missile complex to replace the RS 24 “Yars” – a missile that was still in service with the Soviet Union and is currently on combat duty in the Russian Federation.
According to him, “the first test of this rocket was carried out in June 2021 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.”
The deputy head of the GUR clarified that the development of the Kedr missile complex was carried out on the basis of the Rubezh missile complex, however, according to Skibitsky, “something went wrong with the Russians”, and in 2017 they stopped this development. Instead, the Russian Federation opened a new research and development project called “Hazelnut”.
“This is, in fact, an integral part of the Kedar, because the Kedar envisaged the creation of a new missile to replace the Yars, both mine-based and mobile-based. And our assessment is that the work of Oreshnyk involved the creation of a mobile port that would not be tied to the mine,” said the intelligence representative.
On November 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the “successful test” of the newest medium-range Oreshnik missile. According to him, the forces of the Russian Federation hit the “Pivdenmash” plant in Dnipro.
On Thursday morning, the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that Russian troops attacked the Dnipro with various types of missiles, including launching an intercontinental ballistic missile. No details were provided regarding the use of an intercontinental ballistic missile by Russian troops in the Armed Forces.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, confirmed that today Russia used a new missile, which according to its characteristics is an intercontinental ballistic weapon. According to him, examinations are ongoing.
During a press briefing on November 21, Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, was called and asked not to comment on the statements about the intercontinental ballistic missile of the Russian Federation launched over Ukraine.
The Reuters agency, citing two unnamed Western officials, reports that preliminary data do not confirm Russia’s use of an intercontinental ballistic missile. However, the publication’s sources did not rule out that the conclusions may change in the future.
According to the local authorities, an industrial enterprise was damaged in Dnipro as a result of the strike, two fires also broke out in the city, and three people were injured.
The day before, the US Embassy in Ukraine reported that it had received “specific information” about a possible significant Russian air attack on November 20. As a precaution, the embassy was closed. Subsequently, the diplomatic missions of Spain, Italy and Greece also announced the closure for visitors on November 20.
Against this background, social networks spread information about the possibility of launching an attack on Ukraine with the RS-26 “Rubezh” ballistic missile. The launches were supposed to be from a training ground in the Astrakhan region. On November 20, such launches were not reported.