Ukraine says Russia deploys Iskander-M launchers near border
(Reuters) – Russia has deployed Iskander-M cellular battlefield missile launchers inside 60 km (40 miles) of the Ukrainian border, Common Employees of Ukraine’s Armed Forces stated on Sunday.
“Then enemy has elevated the variety of troops within the Belgorod area by transferring and concentrating extra models,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated in its day by day morning replace.
“In keeping with obtainable info, Iskander-M launchers have been deployed 60 km from the border with Ukraine,” it stated, with out offering extra element on the placement of the methods.
Reuters couldn’t instantly to confirm the stories. There was no rapid response from Moscow to the stories.
Belgorod is a metropolis and the executive centre of Russia’s Belgorod area, north of the border with Ukraine.
The Iskander, a cellular ballistic missile system codenamed SS-26 Stone by NATO, changed the Soviet Scud missile. Its two guided missiles have a variety of as much as 500 km (300 miles) and might carry standard or nuclear warheads.
Russia stated on Friday it wished to manage all of southern Ukraine. Kyiv stated this confirmed Moscow had wider objectives than its declared purpose of demilitarising and “denazifying” the nation. Ukraine and the West name the invasion, now in its third month, an unjustified struggle of aggression.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Modifying by William Mallard)
