By KYIV. Oct 27 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Russia will likely use any recently produced inventory LRA munitions to strike Ukrainian energy infrastructure over the winter, British Intelligence says.
“The Russian Airforce’s Long Range Aviation fleet (LRA) of heavy bombers has not conducted air launched cruise missile strikes into Ukraine for over a month, one of the longest gaps in such strikes since the conflict began,” the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland said in a report on the social network X (Twitter) on Friday.
As noted, while Russia is still able to utilise other strike capabilities, the LRA had been the primary method for conducting stand-off precision strikes. “Russia almost certainly needed to reduce the frequency of its strikes to replenish its diminishing stockpile of AS-23a KODIAK cruise missiles,” experts note.
“Russia will likely use any recently produced inventory LRA munitions to strike Ukrainian energy infrastructure over the winter. Russia will highly likely continue to supplement any such campaign with Iranian-designed one-way attack uncrewed aerial vehicle attacks,” intelligence experts said.
