
People stand near a destroyed house, who suffered from the Russian army missile in Uman. Photo: Sergei Chuzavkov / Sopa Images / Sipa USA Via Reuters Connect
“Russia has formed a deficiency of ballistic missiles and the reserves of Caliber cruise missiles end. This happened due to the impact of economic sanctions against the Russian Federation, ”on the first day of the new, 2023, Vadim Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said on the air of the National Telemerathon.
The words of Skibitsky were sounded for the civilian population to some extent healing. Probably, it was necessary to say so immediately after the night “festive” massive attack with victims and destruction: 31 missiles and 12 airstrikes on the territory of Ukraine. They aimed, as the Kremlin claimed, in the thermal power station and electrical substations. They were going to destroy as many infrastructure objects as possible: the cannibalic idea to immerse the country in the dark and the cold did not let go. But they killed and wounded those who were in residential buildings.
“What they now produce are the remains of components that were in warehouses. In addition, Ukrainian intelligence takes events to prevent the production of any weapons in Russia ...
Significantly reduces the reserves of air-based cruise missiles X-101, X-555. And our calculations are very simple. The maximum that Russia is capable of is two or three more powerful blows, this is how we observed recently, ” explained the intelligence officer Skibitsky.
Here, in a separate column marked “meanness”, the use of the old X-55 aircraft missiles, developed in the Seventies of the Lain of the Ukrainian city of Dubno of the Rivne region, should be included in Russia's use by Russia. Kyiv handed them to Moscow as part of the Budapest Memorandum along with strategic Tu-160 and Tu-95 bombers. In exchange, as you know, under security guarantees. Now (I quote the interview of Vadim Skibitsky The New York Times) missiles, from which the Russians removed the fighting unit and added ballast to disguise, are used as a bait. First, the X-55 is launched, mainly in sleeping cities. On them, Ukrainian air defense responds as a target. Expand ammunition, the lack of which, against the background of the future counterattack, is increasing.
The topic of calculations "How many Russia still have missiles for massive blows?" It has become popular with experts. Statistics confirmed: since mid -September last year, when Moscow focused on the destruction of the infrastructure of Ukraine, about 850 missiles of different types were released and approximately the same number of drones. The average salvo in October 2022 was 60–70 missiles, although there were launches for a hundred cruise killers at the same time. At first, attacks took place once in a decade, then once every two weeks, after the New Year the intervals still increased, and the number of missiles, on the contrary, decreased.

Experts referred to the speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuri Ignat: the arsenal of high-precision and long-range “calibers”, X-101 and X-555 almost exhausted, the NZ remained ( inviolable reserve.- Approx. Ed. ). But more controlled air bombs appeared. The information looked realistic - at least for Kyiv, who was protected better than other places and lived in relative safety for a little more than 50 days. The last of the remembered, including the capital, massive attacks, took place on March 9. Then the Russian Federation released 81 missiles in Ukraine, not counting the Dronov-Kamikadze.
The killings of Ukrainians have been written less often by controlled air bombs. I will explain how it looks, especially for expanding the horizons of those who put the equal sign between the victims of Putin's regime in Ukraine and in Russia.
Air bombs weighing 500 kilos, with “wings” and GPS navigation, are carried by tactical bombers who do not go into the defeat of Ukrainian air defense systems. In addition, the pilots do not risk in vain: they dump their cargo in the frontline zone, on the principle of “where to go”-the enemy is everywhere! And the front -line regions are now nine: Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkov, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Nikolaev, Odessa and Kherson. People go to bed and do not know if they will wake up in the morning. Point tragedies do not stop there for a day - in addition to missile strikes. Such, for example, as an aiming on a nine-story building in the Dnieper on January 14, which was written by New Evrop.
On April 28, the illusory lull in the conditional rear of the war was once again interrupted. At 03:40 a.m. Russia hit the Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv region and Kyiv. “The goal has been achieved,” as usual, commented on the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The “high -precision weapon” was struck by the “temporary deployment points of the reserve of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces” and “stopped the enemy’s nomination to the combat areas”. The Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny also reported : out of 23 X-101 and X-555 issued in Ukraine, 21 were shot down 21. Apparently, the Russians were most afraid of nomination of enemy columns from Kiev: 11 cruise missiles and two drones were launched in the capital. The air defense forces were on top. But the wreckage of the shot down rockets fell onto an apartment building in the town of Ukrainian near Kiev, a 13-year-old girl was injured. In the Dnieper, as a result of the attack, a private house was destroyed, a young mother and a two -year -old daughter were killed, three more people were injured.
The consequences of falling two X-101 into a nine-story residential building in the city of Uman of the Cherkasy region shocked the whole world. The whole entrance, 23 killed, of which six were almost completely destroyed, children from one and a half to 16 years old. Entire families were killed, dozens of people were taken to hospitals with injuries of various severity, in a state of shock. The house is an ordinary factory high -rise building, the neighbors knew each other for many years, worked together. On April 30, when rescuers finished disassembled the rubble, a funeral began in a blackened one from Uman's grief.

This small city is known as the Center for the pilgrimage of the Hasidov, who have been coming here in the fall to celebrate Rosh Ha-Shan here in the grave of Tsadik Nakhman. In 2022, the SBU recommended pilgrims, which usually gathered up to 30 thousand, to refrain from visiting holy places due to the danger of missile strikes.
In hot pursuit of the murder of the murder, the Russia-1 TV channel and TG channel Vladimir Solovyov issued the shelling of Uman for the shelling of Donetsk by the “Ukrainian fascists”.
The next massive attack took place almost without an interval, on the night of May 1, the real Valpurga. Nine Tu-95 MS strategic aircraft aircraft from the Olenegorsk region of the Murmansk region and two Tu-160s from the Caspian Sea, 18 air-based cruise missiles were produced. Sirens sounded all over the country. In the capital, night alarm lasted more than three hours. Some of the Kievites went down at the metro station, which was not done for a long time. The lives of children are priceless, and the maximum task in the Kremlin is to turn the whole of Ukraine into a territory of fear, make it unsuitable for life, and force it to flight. The air defense reliably closed Kyiv and this time knocked down everything that had death.
But the missiles aimed at the Pavlograd, the Dnipropetrovsk region, could not be destroyed. Here it was damaged by an industrial enterprise, 19 multi -storey buildings and 25 private, several schools and kindergartens, a store. 34 victims, of which five children: fractures, torn wounds, contusion, poisoning of combustion products. A few were taken to intensive care. And on the afternoon of May 1, the Russians fired at school in the village of Lizunivka, Novgorod-Siversky district of the Chernihiv region. The school did not work, a 14-year-old teenager was in the school court, he died from fragmentation wounds.
“... Russians will have to pay for everything. For mining the territories, for blows to objects, for killing people and kidnapping children. Now the score has already gone to several generations. He will not come back, on the contrary, it will multiply, ” wrote in his TG channel the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andrei Ermak, who informed the next crime about this. - Unborn generations will be paid, and no one will ask them whether they want it or not. Moreover, these generations will receive a serious problem, because history will go down the heirs of Russian terrorists who carried out the genocide of the Ukrainian people. ”
New missile attacks by Russians - “probing” of logistics centers and routes on the eve of the counterattack of Ukraine. Psychosis about the latter has already entered the final stage. There is no success at the front, so at least put on high -rise buildings! The next surge of missile terror, I can say with complete confidence, will take place on the eve of May 9. In Moscow, at the Victory Parade over fascism, without a festive ritual with Ukrainian blood, especially the nursery, you can not do.