Russia has likely had to dip into its stock of ageing nuclear cruise missiles, removing the warheads and firing unarmed munitions at Ukraine due to low supplies, Britain's military intelligence said on Saturday.
The defense ministry said open source imagery shows wreckage of an air launched cruise missile fired at Ukraine which seem to have been designed in the 1980s as a nuclear delivery system. Ballast was probably being substituted for the warheads, it added.
Such a system will still produce damage through the missile's kinetic energy and unspent fuel. However, it is unlikely to achieve reliable effects against intended targets, the ministry added in its daily intelligence update.
"Whatever Russia's intent, this improvisation highlights the level of depletion in Russia's stock of long range missiles", the ministry said.
Head of humanitarian aid organisation recalls harrowing moment in Kherson
A British humanitarian aid group narrowly escaped a Russian rocket attack as they attempted to deliver food and medicine in Kherson.Vans Without Borders were driving into areas under Russian occupation when forces three kilometres away started to shell the village they were in.At one point the team of about six were stuck on the side of the road hurriedly changing a car tyre as Ukrainian forces were fleeing around them. In footage posted online the group’s founder Jack Ross can be seen in a car talking to the camera as a plume of smoke
'We cannot be broken', says Zelensky
President Zelensky vowed on Saturday that Ukraine would continue to resist Russian attacks, as the country marked the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor famine that affected millions of Ukrainians under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.Several European leaders travelled to Ukraine to pledge support after weeks of Russian strikes on Ukraine's energy grid caused widespread power and water cuts as temperatures plunge with the onset of winter."Ukrainians went through very terrible things... Once they wanted to destroy us with hunger, now - with darkness and cold," Mr Zelensky said in a video posted on social media."We cannot be broken," he added.
rises from a field in the distance.“We had a missile go over the top of us – big impact,” he said, “so we are now fleeing the area.”Mr Ross said while the dangers of delivering aid into Ukraine are known to them, the incident in Kherson was no less “heartbreaking”.“We are fortunate enough to escape but who knows about them. It’s heartbreaking. You try to do good and [someone] decides to bomb the f---- out of civilians,” he said.
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