Ukraine will expect from partner countries long-range weapons capable of shooting down ballistic missiles.
The spokesman of the Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Yurii Ignat stated this during a briefing on November 7.
His statement was made in the context of the fact that Russia may receive ballistic missiles from Iran. If it gets them, it will likely try to use them against our energy infrastructure.
"Ballistic missiles fly from space, from the stratosphere, but they are launched from ground-based complexes. And Ukraine has no effective means against such missiles. Therefore, now we will expect from our partners exactly those means that will help us get the enemy. We are talking about long-range weapons that could help us protect ourselves from ballistic missiles, from the terror that Russia has unleashed against our people," Yurii Ignat noted.
Ballistic missiles are launched into the stratosphere. When they fly to the "working zone", they "fall" on the given target from a great height at an angle of almost 90 degrees, gaining high speed — because of this, it is difficult to shoot it down.
- On November 1, CNN, citing Western officials who closely monitor Iranʼs weapons program, reported that Iran plans to transfer about 1,000 ballistic missiles and drones to Russia for the war against Ukraine.
- On November 7, Ukrainian military intelligence reported that the Russians had used about 80% of their stockpile of modern missiles, and 120 Iskanders remained in service. With this in mind, the Kremlin regime is trying to replenish its reserves at the expense of Iran. Russia plans to receive about a thousand Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar short-range ballistic missiles of the "surface-to-surface" class from Tehran.