Russia fired an upgraded version of its Iskander short-range ballistic missile for the first time in a summer strike on the Ukrainian capital city, the country’s military intelligence agency shared this week.
Russian forces have significantly ramped up their ballistic missile attacks on Ukraine this year. These strikes come as Russia upgrades its arsenal and Ukraine struggles to procure sufficient numbers of critical air-defense interceptors.
On Thursday, Ukraine’s GUR, the country’s military and defense intelligence agency, said that Russia had used an upgraded ballistic missile, the 9M723-2 or “Iskander-1000,” against Ukraine for the first…
