The UK Department of Defense intelligence community said that drone and missile attacks on Russian territory, which are strategically important for Ukraine in the war, have increased in recent months.
Source: British intelligence report, European Truth
Details: The report says that “the leadership of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of the Russian Federation is likely to be under strong pressure to improve air defense over the western part of Russia.”
“Unmanned aerial vehicles regularly strike at Moscow. In addition, reports of missile strikes against Russia by S-200 anti-aircraft missile systems have become more frequent,” the intelligence service said.
The Ministry of Defense clarifies that “this Soviet-era weapon weighing 7.5 tons and 11 meters long has been removed from the air defense of Ukraine,” but “now it is apparently used as a ground-based ballistic missile.”
“Strikes deep into Russia are strategically important as President Putin invaded Ukraine, almost certainly assuming it would have little direct effect on the Russians,” British intelligence said.
The agency also suggests that “pressure is likely to be particularly strong on the chief of staff of the VKS, Colonel-General Viktor Afzalov,” while “the commander-in-chief of the VKS, General Sergei Surovikin, is still absent, because there is a suspicion that he was detained in connection with the rebellion” of the “group Wagner” in June 2023″.
Recall: On the night of August 20, the governor of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation Roman Starovoit said that allegedly a Ukrainian drone attacked the railway station in Kursk.
The day before , British intelligence informed that the offensive of Ukraine in the south was successful, while the Russian Federation in the Kharkiv region was not.
Source : pravda.com.ua
