Missile attack in Ukraine: in ISW ​​explained why Putin used scarce "daggers"

This is considered at the American Institute of War Study (ISW), which is stated in the report for March 9. The General Staff of the Armed Forces reported that during the night and morning of March 9, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired Ukrainian critical infrastructure of the country 84 with various missiles, including 6 hypersonic missiles X-47 "dagger".

The air defense has managed to knock down 34 of the 48 winged caliber missiles and X-101/X-555 and 4 Shahhed-136 drones, and 8 Russian missiles X-31P and X-59 did not reach the goals. In the Air Force of Ukraine, it was reported that Ukrainian defenders did not have the opportunity to knock down some Russian missiles, referring to the missiles "dagger" and C-300.

The Ministry of Defense of Russia stated that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation had caused "high-precision missile strikes from the air, sea and ground base" on Ukrainian military infrastructure, military-industrial complexes and energy infrastructure that supports the Ukrainian military, in response to the alleged invasion of the Bryansk region.

"Probably, the Kremlin deliberately launched missiles that Ukrainian air defense cannot be intercepted to achieve results in the Russian information space, despite the reduction of reserves of such missiles. Communities that the overwhelming majority urged him to take revenge on the incident in the Bryansk region on March 2, ”the Institute analysts report. It is noted that Russian military bloggers did not support the strikes on March 9.

They noted that the Kremlin needs to change the approach to targeting, as Ukraine has adapted to the formed model of attack on its energy infrastructure. On March 9, the Lviv OVA stated that the air defense forces were shot down by all Russian air purposes that attacked the region. However, one of the rockets fell into the residential area, resulting in killed 5 inhabitants of the Zolochiv district. Experts find out that the cause of the rocket to fall on homes.