Ukraine says Russia deploys Iskander-M launchers near border
16:42 JST, April 24, 2022
Russia has deployed Iskander-M mobile battlefield missile launchers within 60 kilometers of the Ukrainian border, General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said on Sunday.
“Then enemy has increased the number of troops in the Belgorod region by transferring and concentrating additional units,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in its daily morning update.
“According to available information, Iskander-M launchers have been deployed 60 kilometers from the border with Ukraine,” it said, without providing more detail on the location of the systems.
Reuters could not immediately to verify the reports. There was no immediate reaction from Moscow to the reports.
Belgorod is a city and the administrative center of Russia’s Belgorod region, north of the border with Ukraine.
The Iskander, a mobile ballistic missile system codenamed SS-26 Stone by NATO, replaced the Soviet Scud missile. Its two guided missiles have a range of up to 500 kilometers and can carry conventional or nuclear warheads.
Russia said on Friday it wanted to control all of southern Ukraine. Kyiv said this showed Moscow had wider goals than its declared aim of demilitarizing and “denazifying” the country. Ukraine and the West call the invasion, now in its third month, an unjustified war of aggression.
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