The 40-year-old anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles are reportedly being repurposed to strike land-based targets.
Russian forces are reportedly relying on Soviet-era munitions for certain tasks as the invasion of Ukraine labors on.
In Mykolaiv, a city in Southern Ukraine, six strikes over the last weekend have been attributed to Russian S-300 missiles, anti-aircraft munitions introduced roughly 40 years ago with a range of 75 miles. Two Kh-32 missiles, originally designed to sink aircraft carriers, were also credited with the strike on a Kremenchuk shopping center that killed 20 people last month. A slightly older version of the same missile was also used to strike an Odessa apartment complex last week, killing 18 people.
Russian forces have become increasingly reliant on Soviet-era missiles designed to strikes aircraft and ships to hit land-based targets in Ukraine. Above, a shot of pro-Russian forces firing missiles in 2015."The Soviet Union built up vast stocks of munitions for its chosen weapon systems and the S-300 has been replaced by a new, more advance [surface-to-air] system.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," a Western intelligence report, cited by iNews, claimed.
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