Strategic strike plans in place: Insights into Ukraine's planning process

He shared the information on Espreso TV.

“I won't say that Ukraine is developing such plans, because such strike plans have already been developed, and if they are going to be improved, they will be subject to certain changes. If our allies authorize the use of weapons, then, of course, the scale of the plans will increase. Because there are plans for strikes, but most of them, unfortunately, in theory, taking into account what we are saying, lack the material and technical resources to implement them, but there are plans. Because even a strike on an arsenal or a warehouse is a huge, painstaking work that precedes this strike and sometimes takes months and months. Because you have to scout out where the depot is located, determine the moment when it has the largest accumulation of ammunition. You have to check that it is not really a prop, let's say, but really combat equipment. We need to bypass air defense systems and keep this operation secret. To strike quickly, that is, to get a number of approvals even within your own structure, to get flight paths in your air defense system for either drones or missiles, depending on what is used and what nomenclature,” he said. 

Ivan Tymochko noted that the assistance of partners in this area is needed not only at the level of providing weapons or permits for use.

"The second point will also depend on how compatible we are with our allies regarding intelligence and readiness to counter enemy strikes, not just whether our allies will grant permissions or not. To conduct mass drone strikes, we need to accumulate and protect the drones and assemble the personnel to launch them. This also involves maintaining secrecy, determining flight routes, and all this happens quite rapidly," the military official added.

• On September 16, it was reported that the U.S. Department of State said that it could not yet announce the lifting of restrictions on the use of long-range Western weapons on Russian territory.
• In the early hours of September 18, a drone attack triggered a fire and explosions at an ammunition depot in Toropets, Tver region. Authorities have ordered a partial evacuation of the area.
• Defense Express military expert Ivan Kyrychevskyi has said that the explosions on September 18 in Russia’s Tver region were unprecedented in world military history.