KYIV, Nov 26 (Reuters) - A new ballistic missile fired by Russia at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro last week carried multiple warheads but no explosives, and caused limited damage, two senior Ukrainian government sources said.
Their comments appeared to confirm the Kremlin's own description of the weapon's use last Thursday as a warning to the West after the United States and Britain allowed Ukraine to fire their missiles into Russia.
Eyewitnesses who live in the area near the factory say that there was no fire when the attack struck, yet they felt something like an “earthquake” that “cracked” some houses perhaps a mile away. Likewise there was no explosion in the conventional sense. What was it?
While we have no accounting as to how much was actually destroyed, again witness accounts say the working part of the facility was turned into dust. This suggests that the Oreshnik submunitions crashed at hypersonic speed into the workshops and simply pulverized them. There was no particular need for high explosives to do the job.
Their comments appeared to confirm the Kremlin's own description of the weapon's use last Thursday as a warning to the West after the United States and Britain allowed Ukraine to fire their missiles into Russia.
Eyewitnesses who live in the area near the factory say that there was no fire when the attack struck, yet they felt something like an “earthquake” that “cracked” some houses perhaps a mile away. Likewise there was no explosion in the conventional sense. What was it?
While we have no accounting as to how much was actually destroyed, again witness accounts say the working part of the facility was turned into dust. This suggests that the Oreshnik submunitions crashed at hypersonic speed into the workshops and simply pulverized them. There was no particular need for high explosives to do the job.
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