Satellite images. Russia throws missile systems from St. Petersburg to Ukraine-media

Russia moves a large number of anti-aircraft missiles towards Ukraine, in particular from St. Petersburg. About it reports the Finnish edition of Yle, publishing satellite images. The photo shows that in the summer, mobile fire platforms and missiles disappeared from a base in the Zelenorsk area at the Karelian isthmus near St. Petersburg. The city has long been surrounded by a protective ring of 14 anti-aircraft missing bases. Now several of them are empty.

Video of the Day "Judging by the pictures, four anti -aircraft bases were released from the equipment," said Yle a military expert, a retired Major Marco Eklund. The map below shows anti-aircraft missile batteries around St. Petersburg, 170 km from the border with Finland. Eklund says that the throwing of equipment is unlikely to weaken significantly the air defense of the Russian city, as the arms exported is older. In his opinion, the S-300 systems were transferred, more than the C-400-remained.

In the pictures you can see that all the missile installations were removed from the missile battery near the village of Kerstovo. The first photo in the upper right corner shows 12 of them. The first picture is the year, the latter was done in early September. One and a half kilometers to the northeast is another battery of the same regiment - also completely devastated. Only radar equipment remains. Of the four batteries of the regiment, only two remained.

The pictures show that the Russians also removed from one of the batteries about 25 containers with rockets - they could contain a hundred shells. Eklund said that in May, missile containers were loaded on transport platforms based on the east of St. Petersburg. The second photo shows that not only missile containers have disappeared, but also a number of vehicles that have been standing in the open for years. Up to 120 missiles could be taken out of the landfill missile containers.