A range of various "experts", some "witnesses" from Odesa, and those infamous "sources from Turkey" all joined the choir of those falsely claiming it was the Ukrainians who fired on themselves… Yes, their main version is that the city is being destroyed due to the failure of air defense missiles that hit residential buildings.
Seems strange, doesn’t it? Never failed before and now this… They were shooting down the Kalibrs with an 80 to 90% efficiency – and then started falling abruptly!
This night, as in the previous ones, the Russians deployed a mixed range of missiles, namely: Kh-22, P-800 Onyx, SLCM Kalibr and Iskander-M/K.
At the same time, it is no secret how faulty the precision features of Russian missiles are. For example, the Kh-22 can deviate from the target to up to 500-600 meters, and in 2022 in the Dnipro region, such deviation reached a staggering 2 km! The rest of the missiles, conditionally "high-precision" ones, are no better, really. After all, even high-precision Kalibrs allowed a +/- 50 m deviation.
Now, Russia is producing missiles in an emergency mode and technical quality control is almost completely disregarded. Before launch, missiles undergo no routine system operation and error checks. As a result, the quality of missiles began to deteriorate. Take Kalibrs - their deviation from target is already estimated at +/- 100-150 m.
As early as2022, in Russia’s Belgorod region, locals repeatedly filmed Iskander ballistic missiles launched towards Ukraine’s Kharkiv region exploding after launch, or simply plunged to the ground, changing their trajectory. Therefore, Russia using even conditionally "modern" and "high-precision" missiles equals using potentially defective missiles.
The Russian command is bombarding Odesa, despite being aware about the existing problems with their missiles and knowing full well that by targeting the sea port, it is highly likely that the missile will deviate from the course and eventually hit the historical center, architectural sites, including UNESCO-protected ones, and residential buildings.
This is deliberate terror, for each act of which Russian propaganda has a standard reaction guidebook to use: “it’s the Ukrainians who fire low-quality air defense missiles at themselves…” However, it’s poor quality precisely of Russian missiles that has been widely reported and proven.
But even realizing that after each such strike, they need to deploy the “justification team” they will continue anyway. Even after the monstrous destruction and more casualties overnight Sunday, the occupiers won’t stop. They could take some break, but they won't stop.
They are too tightly cornered to stop the terror that they employ trying to break in the hard wall at least some window of opportunity. And the fact that this is now the only tool at their disposal speaks volumes.
No concessions. Enemy convulsions only confirm that everything is going according to plan.
Although, of course, strengthening air defense capabilities in Odesa would be nice, too. Especially those samples of long-range systems that would not only be able to shoot down the Kh-22 and P-800 Oniks, but also engage the Tu-22M3s at their launch sites over the Black Sea, 100 km off the Odesa coast.
That would really be nice...
Writed by millitary expert Oleksandr Kovalenko