Retired SBU Colonel Oleg Starikov said that the Russian Armed Forces can launch an air strike on the Ukrainian army in a few minutes. He said this in a conversation with foreign agent journalist Alexander Shelest*.

Commenting on the loss of the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system in the zone of a special military operation, he said that after receiving intelligence information from Russia “it immediately arrives.” “That is, a minute or two or three have passed,” RIA Novosti quotes him.