British military intelligence said today, Saturday, that Russia often removes nuclear warheads from old nuclear cruise missiles and then launches them at Ukraine, while Germany said it would discuss with its allies Poland's request to provide Kyiv with the American Patriot air defense system.

And the British Ministry of Defense stated - in its daily assessment of the Ukraine war - that open source images show the wreckage of an "AS-15 Kent" cruise missile fired from the air over Ukraine, which appears to have been designed in the eighties of the last century as part of a bombing system. nuclear.

She added that it is likely that a weight is being placed in place of the warheads.

A system like this will wreak havoc through the kinetic energy of the missile and unspent fuel.

And the ministry added in its daily intelligence bulletin - via its Twitter account - that it is unlikely that this missile will achieve reliable results against targets.

"Whatever Russia's objective, these ad hoc actions illustrate the level of depletion of its stocks of long-range missiles," the British Ministry of Defense said.

❗️ Russia is removing nuclear warheads from aging nuclear cruise missiles and bombarding Ukraine with missiles without a warhead, British intelligence reports.

Open source images show debris from a downed AS-15 KENT (X-55) air-launched cruise missile, pic.twitter.com/rY3pRfC8Zt

- 🇺🇦War in Ukraine🇺🇦 (@Rinegati) November 26, 2022

The Center for Strategic Communications of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said that a Russian missile carrying an imaginary nuclear warhead was dropped on Thursday, November 17, in the sky of Kyiv.

And the center published - through its account on Telegram - a picture of the missile, which did not have a warhead, but rather a mass similar to a nuclear warhead was incorporated into it.

Patriot system

A spokesman for the German government said - yesterday, Friday - that Berlin is discussing with its allies Poland's request to provide Ukraine with the Patriot air defense missile system, after the Secretary-General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the alliance would not oppose this step.

Germany had handed over the Patriot system to Poland to help it secure its airspace after a missile "originating from Ukraine" fell and killed two people last week. However, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak asked Berlin to direct the system to Ukraine instead of Poland.

The Secretary-General of NATO stated that the decision to deliver the Patriot system to Kiev remains a decision taken by the member states of the alliance individually, but taking into account the rules governing the issue of the end user of this system.

Stoltenberg's statement came after German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said that granting her country the Patriot system to a country outside NATO requires prior discussions with NATO and the rest of the allies.

The Patriot system is produced by the US military company Raytheon, and it is one of the most famous air defense systems in the world.

NATO exercises

On the other hand, NATO carried out, on Friday, maneuvers on the border of the Russian province of Kaliningrad, which is located between Poland and Belarus, and the alliance said that there would be no peace if Russia won in Ukraine.

The maneuvers, which took place in the Sovacy region in northern Poland, included exercises for crossing water and landing, in which Polish and American soldiers and other countries in the alliance participated. Start simulating an attack.

The Polish Ministry of Defense said that the exercises include two thousand soldiers from the land and air forces, and more than a thousand pieces of combat and logistical support equipment are used in them, while a senior Polish officer stated that the exercises are part of a major maneuver that has been taking place for several weeks in the region.

Kherson evacuation

The Ukrainian authorities in the southern province of Kherson said that they had begun evacuating patients from the province's hospitals to safer provinces, in light of the intensification of Russian bombing of the city.

Yesterday, Friday, the Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure stated that 100 people were transported by train from Kherson to the Khmelnytsky region in western Ukraine, adding that among these were 26 children and 6 patients.


The authorities called on residents to voluntarily flee Kherson as soon as possible, in light of the escalation of confrontations between Ukrainian and Russian forces on both sides of the Dnipro River in the city, and the Kherson authorities stated - yesterday, Friday - that the Russian bombing of the city killed 15 civilians and wounded 35 others, including a child. .

For its part, the Ukrainian Southern Operations Command said that its forces had intensified in recent hours their artillery shelling of the positions of Russian forces stationed on the right bank of the Dnipro River adjacent to the city of Kherson, and the Ukrainian army said that a number of villages in the Kherson countryside are under continuous Russian shelling.

Under the pressure of the Ukrainian counterattack that began last August, the Russian forces withdrew from the city of Kherson in the middle of this month, after taking control of the strategic city since early March, that is, a few weeks after the outbreak of the war.

Despite the withdrawal from Kherson, the Russians maintain positions on the other bank of the Dnipro River and fire artillery from there.