Russia is currently using Soviet nuclear missiles to attack Ukraine, removing their warheads, in order to “distract” and deplete the reserves of Ukrainian air defense, the Kiev army charged on Thursday, which presented fragments of an X-55 missile cruiser (Х-55) found on the west of the country, reports News.ro with reference to the BBC.

Such missiles are now being launched into Ukraine to “deplete our country’s air defense system,” a Ukrainian official said, adding that tests of the recovered fragments did not show abnormal levels of radioactivity, meaning the nuclear charge had been removed. “This shows that there was no contact (of the missile) with nuclear elements,” he said.

On the other hand, Ukrainian military experts claim that Russia would have significantly depleted its vast arsenal of missiles after the waves of massive attacks in recent weeks on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. As a result, Moscow will now resort to the use of projectiles, which, although they do not have the destructive capacity for which they are designed, can cause serious damage.

Similar conclusions were reached in the reports of the British special services in November.

Mykola Danylyuk, a representative of the research unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, at a briefing on Thursday, showed journalists the wreckage of Kh-55 cruise missiles (according to the NATO classification AS-15), found in Lviv and Khmelnytskyi. regions October 31 According to him, the projectiles were developed in Soviet times to hit “strategic targets with predetermined coordinates.”

And Great Britain said that these missiles were developed “exclusively as a nuclear strike system.”