Russian tactical air activity has intensified over the past two weeks, particularly over southern Ukraine, British military intelligence said in an assessment on Wednesday.

This, of course, was a reaction to the increase in Ukrainian offensive actions, as the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) are trying to support ground troops with airstrikes, according to the British military.

However, the Air Force’s daily sorties remain well below the war’s peak of 300 sorties per day.

Since the beginning of the “special military operation”, as Russian President Vladimir Putin calls the war in Ukraine, the south of the country has often been more accessible to Russian aircraft operations than other areas of the front.

Over the past year, the Russian air force has increasingly used air-to-surface weapons, such as “gliding” bombs, which allow bombers to strike at significant distances from their targets, the British Ministry of Defense said.

In April, Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat said that Moscow uses Su-35 and Su-34 aircraft to launch these bombs without entering the space where they are vulnerable to Ukrainian air defense missiles. to EFE and Unian.

“They began to regularly use “gliding” bombs that can cover a distance of up to 70 kilometers,” Yuriy Ignat said, noting that the enemy used about 10-20 bombs of this type per day during the entire month of the front. , writes Agerpres.

This type of “gliding” bomb covers a trajectory of several kilometers from the moment it is launched by an aircraft and has a longer range than a normal one because it has wings.

The higher the height from which such a bomb is launched, the greater the distance it will cover.

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