"The enemy is looking for vulnerable places": Skibitsky predicted whether Russia will massively hit Ukraine with missiles in the fall

The Russian occupiers are now studying Ukraine's energy facilities, looking for their vulnerabilities and the location of our air defense systems. They will analyze all of this in order to choose the best routes for missile launches as early as autumn 2023.

This was reported by the Deputy head of the Main Directorate of intelligence of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Vadym Skibitsky in comments "RBC-Ukraine". At the same time expressed his belief that the enemy will not be able to carry out attacks on such a scale as in the fall and winter of 2022-2023.

According to him, the tactics and approach of the Russian Federation's strikes will depend on how methodically correct it is in identifying critical facilities for Ukraine. And for massive strikes, the aggressor country can probably use both missiles and kamikaze drones.

"It could be one or two or three strikes aimed at one object to finally destroy it. However, such massive ones as it was last October, November, December, when they fired 70-100 missiles at a time - most likely there will be no more," Skibitsky suggested.

He stressed: the Russians now realize that they may not achieve their goal, but will only deplete their reserves, as they did last year.

For their part, the Ukrainian Air Defense Forces will do everything to protect our facilities, to detect preparations for strikes in time and, accordingly, to give recommendations to power engineers to prevent serious damage.

Earlier, Skibitsky said that Russia now has at least 585 missiles in its arsenal, which can be fired at a distance of more than half a thousand kilometers and which it most often uses to attack different regions of Ukraine. According to him, Russian attacks on Ukraine this summer were not so massive because the enemy is forced to save missiles in order to accumulate their stockpile.

As reported by OBOZREVATEL, ISW analysts stressed that Russia has only slightly replenished its stockpile of precision missiles through conservation in the summer and may resume a broader campaign of strikes against Ukraine's critical infrastructure as early as the fall. But Russia's available number of missiles is probably not enough to launch massive attacks like those in the fall-winter of 2022-2023.

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