🔴 Russia repurposing decades-old weaponry to bombard Ukraine as modern missiles 'run short'
The Institute for the Study of War, a US-based conflict think-tank, said on Sunday that the use of the S-300 system suggested that Russian forces southern Ukraine are “facing missile shortages”.
A Western security source added: “The Soviet Union built up vast stocks of munitions for its chosen weapon systems and the S-300 has been replaced by a new, more advance [surface-to-air] system. There will be a lot of S-300 missiles in the Russian inventory. After much of Moscow’s “first echelon” force was damaged or wiped out in the initial phase of the war, commanders are resorting to mothballed machinery to transport troops being readied on Russian territory for future deployment in Ukraine.