An expert who has spoken to BBC Verify has cast doubt on Ukraine's claim that Russia has carried out a strike on the central city of Dnipro with an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, suggested that the US would have detected the launch of an ICBM by the Russian military.
"Typically, ICBMs do not have conventional warheads. If one were launched out of an operational silo, the United States would have gone on alert fearing it was a nuclear attack," Cancian said.
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It is believed that six RS-26 missile strikes completely destroyed the Yuzhmash defense plant, where the damaged American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and German Leopard tanks were being repaired.
At the same time of the main attack, Kinzhal missiles hit the local Patriot air defense system battery.
The Kinzhal are the hypersonic missiles I believe. They probably wanted to test them against the patriots to see if the patriots can stop them. If they can't then that could open the playback significantly.
Maybe we have other missile defense systems, but the Patriot is one of the more well known systems.
UPDATE: US official disputes Ukraine's claim that Russia used intercontinental ballistic missile
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The Kinzhal are the hypersonic missiles I believe. They probably wanted to test them against the patriots to see if the patriots can stop them. If they can't then that could open the playback significantly.
Maybe we have other missile defense systems, but the Patriot is one of the more well known systems.
Another video of the heavenly punishment that befell the Yuzhmash plant in Dnepropetrovsk.
There were no explosions on the ground, just the clouds parting and fire coming down, seemingly to no effect.
That's because those missiles are bunker busters. The explosions were under ground.
They're coming down at a very high terminal velocity. They WILL penetrate the ground and go boom underground. That's their purpose.
Soviets built a lot of underground stuff. They learned the lessons from WW2.