210

Russia ‘fires intercontinental ballistic missile’ at Ukraine for first time (www.telegraph.co.uk)

submitted 1 month ago by Streetlights@lemmy.world to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

119 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Supposedly, an RS-26 was launched from Astrakhan and targeted at infrastructure in Dnipro.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 month ago

Intressting. So by delivering more of them to Ukraine we lower Russias arsenal.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ukraine has not received ICBMs, articles stating Ukraine has received long range missiles are wrong, Ukraine has only received SHORT ranged missiles. up to 300 miles. It's longer range than artillery, but not long range missiles. Long range missiles have several thousand miles range.

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago

Obviously. ICBMs are pretty much useless to Ukraine and without nukes to Russia as well. They are acurate enough to destroy something using a nuke. So missing by a few hundret meters is fine. With conventional explosive that is however pretty much useless.

This is most likely the answer for Biden allowing the use of those short range system and it would be wonderfull to see Russia blow up its nuclear missiles for nothing.