Russian strike on Kiev

On 2 January 2024, a massive Russian rocket strike took place. Ch-47M rockets destroyed at least 2 NASAMS rocket positions under Kiev and a large rocket warehouse to the Patriot system.

At the outset, it is worth noting that Kiev's anti-aircraft defence is presently among the strongest in Europe. Ukrainian OPL Kiev has American Patriot systems with state-of-the-art missiles. According to OSINT, Ukrainians have the following missiles for these systems:

• PAC-2 version of the GEM (Guidance Enhanced Missile);
• PAC-2 version GEM-Cruise (GEM-C);
• PAC-2 version GEM-Tactical (GEM-T);
• PAC-3 in the ‘economic’ version of Cost simplification Initiative (CRI);
• PAC-3 version of rocket section Enhancement (MSE).

We see, therefore, that the US and another NATO countries, including Germany, have equipped the Kiev OPL with what they have the most modern to combat drones, aircraft and ballistic missiles.

Based on data from satellite images and wrecks of Kiev rockets, German IRIS-T anti-aircraft systems and French-Italian anti-aircraft and anti-missile defence systems are besides armed by SAMP/T Mamba. Around Kiev are developed squadrons of American and Norwegian NASAMS systems, as well as russian anti-missile systems S-300MS and Buk-1M. The Ukrainian capital of Kiev is defended by hundreds of anti-aircraft guns, including Swedish Bofors and German Gepards.

Using this highly extended "parasol" of the OPL, warehouses of NATO's most valuable weapons, including SCAPP maneuvering missiles, are deployed in the area of the Kiev agglomeration. This is where the production of ammunition and rockets and the repair of military equipment were developed. Finally, secret drone production facilities are located in Kiev.

After careful analysis, an army-led Russian general Valery Gierasimov ordered the command of the Russian Air Force (WS) and rocket troops to conduct a combined missile-aircraft operation to destruct military infrastructure facilities in the area of the Kiev agglomeration.

The Russian combined operation began on fresh Year's Eve, erstwhile more than 90 Gernaja-2 drones were sent from different positions towards Kiev. The raids were to detect OPL positions and force the demolition of parts of ground-to-air missiles.

Throughout the day of January 1, 2024, the Russians consistently sent tiny drone groups and single rockets maneuvering the Iskander-K strategy and the Ch-59 aircraft. They were fired by Su-34 bombers. The detected rocket launchers and radar positions were fired by Iskander-M ballistic missiles.

On the night of February 1 on February 2, Russian troops fired about 40 Geranja-2 drones again absorbing Ukrainian OPL. The second day of repelling Russian strikers by Ukrainian airmen passed.

Around 3.00 a.m. from the Olenja base on the Kola Peninsula launched at equal intervals 3 keys after 3 Tu-95MS strategical bombers from the 184th dense Bombers Regiment from the 22nd defender dense Bombers Division. Each with 8 Ch-101 maneuvering rockets and Ch-55 apparent targets. They were immediately detected by U.S. spy satellites and provided this information to Ukrainian command. The Ukrainian mass media announced an anti-aircraft alert and the time of arrival of Russian missiles began to be calculated. Shortly thereafter, 2 Tu-95MS keys were picked up from Engels Air Force Base. These were the another 6 aircraft of the 184th dense Bombers Regiment joined the raid.

The Command of the Forward Aviation to carry out the combined operation besides designated the 52nd defender dense Bombers Regiment, which designated 5 crews from 1 and 3 squadrons to carry out the task. 5 Tu-22M3 strategical bombers were launched from the Shajkovka base close Kaluga, each carrying 2 Ch-32 hypersonic rockets.

Bombing aircraft of the 4th defender Air Army with Ch-31P and Ch-59 rockets electrocuted designated Ukrainian radars and rocket squadron positions. In the ensuing "breaks" in Ukrainian defence, about 90 maneuvering rockets began to arrive in the waves and head for targets in Kiev and any in Kharkiv.

In order to inflame the detected Ukrainian position of OPL in Kiev, its positions were attacked by Russians utilizing hypersonic Ch-47M missiles "Kindzarz". 11 MiG-31K launched from Sawasliejka base. This was besides noted by US satellites and the Ukrainians were informed.

Between 7 a.m. and 9.30 a.m., Russian means of air raiding respective waves struck targets in Kiev and Kharkiv and in respective another places.

Ukrainians, as always, declared a "primemoga", as if shooting down all "Kinjals" and almost all maneuvering rockets. Lying as always professionally developed by specialists with 72 Center for intellectual Operations and Information peculiar Forces Ukraine went into the world.

But the scale of the Russian raid and its effectiveness broke an highly tight and repressive strategy of Ukrainian censorship. Films and photographs of a number of Russian hits to industrial and military infrastructure facilities were accessed to the Internet. any were published by foreigners in Kiev, including a Greek industrialist. Part to the rage of Ukrainian safety (SBU) emerged from Russian-occupied hackers of industrial cameras.

In any event, despite the massive massification of NATO's leading technology OPL, Russian air raid measures have successfully electrocuted the targets. The Ukrainian side lost highly costly weapons delivered from NATO countries and industrial infrastructure elements.

Just as he predicted. General Leon Komornicki, the stories of our native Dysms-analysts in this erstwhile military, as if Russia ran out of maneuvering rockets, were as actual as stories of the anticipated successes of the Ukrainian offensive. The general besides predicted that Russian raids in the winter 2023/2024 would have a different character and course than Russian air strikes in the winter 2022/2023.

Russian combined rocket operations are mass-massed, utilizing various types of aerial assault measures, including ballistic missiles, maneuvering missiles, drones and hypersonic missiles.

Internal net Ukrainian channels show that the Ukrainian website is amazed by the scale and form of Russian attacks. OPL measures placed above the front line are urgently moved. The sources of OSINT state that anti-aircraft missiles are being delivered urgently to the airport in Rzeszów to deliver them to Ukraine, as the Ukrainian OPL distributed large quantities and any of the OPL's possessions destroyed the Russians.

It was after 29 December 2023 the second massive Russian raid on Ukraine, which suggests that the Russian side stored powerful amounts of recently produced aerial assault agents, including maneuvering missiles, and began to usage them in the ongoing winter air rocket offensive.

Krzysztof Podgórski

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