“They are constantly on duty in the air with their reconnaissance UAVs – this is Orlan, Zala, Supercam. There are always many of them in the air, we know it ourselves,” he said.
Musienko explained how the reconnaissance and strike complex works.
“If one of these UAVs detects a target in the Zaporozhye direction, the time from fixation to the Iskander attack is up to 20 minutes, that is, if their reconnaissance UAV is on duty over the Dnieper or Zaporozhye, then within 20. -30 minutes is there a risk of a strike The only rational counter to this state of affairs at the moment is the defeat of this UAV, he said.
According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine faced this, because they were very keen on our missile units and air defense units, but most of their attacks were on false targets.
“Artillery is an all-weather branch of the military, we use different types of ammunition, with different depths of destruction, with appropriate reaction times – we have everything but if the sky is not closed, we will not be able to carry out tasks when the enemy can hit an Iskander target with a reaction time of 20 minutes,” he added.
The situation in the Zaporozhye region
In October, several Western media reported that Russian troops may be planning a large-scale offensive to take control of Zaporozhye. The chairman of the Southern Defense Forces, Vladislav Voloshin, said that the Russians have concentrated about 200,000 military personnel in southern Ukraine, including occupation troops in Crimea.
Several interlocutors of RBC-Ukraine in military and political circles fear that the occupiers may launch offensive actions within the Zaporozhye region. According to sources, the theoretical attack directions are Gulyaypole, Orekhov and Kamenskoye, where attacks by enemy AWGs have recently become more frequent.
In November the situation in the Zaporozhye region is becoming increasingly tense . The Ukrainian armed forces expect an attack by Russian troops “any day now.”
