Over the past three months, this is the smallest number of missiles that Russia has fired at Ukraine during a massive missile strike.

For example, on October 10, Russia fired 83 missiles at Ukraine.

In terms of number, this exceeded all missile strikes since February 24.

And on November 15, Russia attacked Ukraine with 96 missiles.

Moreover, since October, the enemy combined missile strikes with drone attacks.

But not this time.

On Friday, December 16, Russia hit Ukraine exclusively with missiles.

The drone attack on Kyiv was early Wednesday morning, December 14.

Then the enemy attacked the capital with 13 drones.

Most likely, Russia used drones on Wednesday, December 14th to detect our air defense systems, to understand where the air defense is densest and how to bypass it.

About this in an interview with TSN.

military expert Oleg Zhdanov told

According to him, what in

that the December 16 attack did not involve drones may indicate several things.

First,

most likely, there is a problem with drones.

So far there are not enough of them to apply.

Secondly,

perhaps Russia has prepared a sufficient number of missiles.

In an interview with The Economist, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny said, among other things, that currently the coefficient of Ukrainian air defense is 0.76.

"And the Russians use this efficiency ratio when they plan their attacks. That means instead of 76 missiles, they launch 100, and 24 go through and hit the target. And what do two missiles do to a power plant? It won't work for two years. So it has to be built up." - noted Valery Zaluzhnyi.

According to Oleh Zhdanov, yes, during the next massive attack, the Russians release many missiles, there may be up to 100 of them. And they launch them in waves.

"They would launch them at the same time, it would be the most effective for them to overload our air defense system. Then there would not be enough means of destruction. And that part of the missiles that exceeds the capabilities of air defense, it would simply fly to the target. But the Russian Federation does not have so many carriers , to launch that many missiles at the same time. That's why we have these, I would say, anti-aircraft "wars" going on here, in the sense that the Russians have to reload these planes, so they're firing waves. And we're reloading our air defenses to repel these waves. And here, who will be ahead of whom. This is a race to get ahead in terms of the defense of Ukraine, and they have it in terms of a missile attack on Ukraine," concludes Oleg Zhdanov.

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