Adviser to Ukraine’s Defense Ministry: the country has no missiles to intercept ballistic targets

An adviser to Ukraine’s Minister of Defense and radio technology expert Serhiy Beskrestnov, call sign “Flash,” has stated that Ukraine currently has a complete absence of missiles for air defense systems capable of shooting down Russian ballistic missiles.

He made the statement on Radio NV.

According to Beskrestnov, only missiles for Patriot surface-to-air missile systems and certain other types of missiles are capable of intercepting ballistic missiles. At the same time, Russian forces have stockpiles of ballistic missiles, which, in the expert’s assessment, poses a serious problem for Ukraine.

“Ukraine has already signed contracts for the supply of a large number of missiles for Patriot air defense systems for a future period and is asking partners to provide these missiles ‘on loan.’ We promise we will return them,” — Beskrestnov noted.

The expert warned of the consequences of the current situation. According to him, if Russian forces are able to carry out missile strikes on Kyiv several times a month, it will allow them to destroy all of Ukraine’s infrastructure.

“Right now it is military enterprises, then it will be energy, business, manufacturing,” — he stressed.

The day before, Yurii Ihnat, head of communications for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reported that during a massive missile attack on Kyiv, air defense forces failed to shoot down a single Iskander ballistic missile — precisely due to a shortage of missiles for air defense systems.

As a result of the strike on the capital, 19 people were killed and another 76 were wounded. In Kyiv Oblast, eight people were killed in the shelling and 48 were wounded.