Missile attacks on Ukraine have stopped in recent weeks due to the depletion of Russian supplies. The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) chief, Let. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov said about it.
Russia has temporarily reduced the number of missile strikes on Ukraine
Budanov emphasised that in recent weeks, missile strikes on Ukrainian cities have stopped because Russian supplies have run out.
In addition, Russia uses more artillery shells than it can produce, and although hundreds of tanks entered service last year, most of them were old models taken out of storage and repaired, and only 178 were new.
As a result, according to Budanov, it will be difficult for Russia to achieve its main strategic goal of capturing all the eastern districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions this year.
They don't have the strength, Budanov said.
He admitted that the Ukrainian forces, which prevail in numbers and weapons, are in a difficult situation.
But Russia also has problems, Budanov said.
Kyrylo Budanov
DIU chief
According to him, Russia's professional army was largely destroyed in the first year of the invasion of Ukraine, so now it is throwing untrained conscripts into suicide attacks.
What is known about the Russian attack on Ukraine on February 21
On the night of February 21, the Russian invaders launched an attack with the S-300 anti-aircraft guided missile (Rostov region), a Kh-59 guided air missile (Belgorod region), four Kh-22 missiles (Rostov region) and 19 kamikaze drones of "Shahed" type (Prymorsko-Akhtarsk).
Ukrainian defenders managed to successfully destroy the Kh-59 guided air missile in the Poltava region and 13 of the 19 "Shaheds" within the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions.
In addition, it is emphasised that six unhit enemy UAVs did not reach their goals.
