Telegraph: Russia's planning bombs force Kiev to reconsider plans for a counteroffensive Telegraph columnists believe that Russian planned aerial bombs create an obstacle for Kiev in conducting a counteroffensive.
According to journalists, the Ukrainian authorities will have to reconsider their plans for active hostilities. Russian planes can drop these bombs without falling into the zone of action of the air defense forces. Thus, the enemy does not see the threat on the radar.
Kiev had to reconsider plans for a counteroffensive because of Russian planning bombs that are invisible to radars. This opinion was expressed by Telegraph columnists Joe Barnes and Roland Oliphant.
"According to Ukrainian officials, the Russian military releases at least 20 planning bombs a day. While the world is waiting for the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ukrainian and Western analysts have begun to assume that the use of these weapons may force Kiev to make changes to its operational planning at the last moment," they wrote.
According to him, the Russian Armed Forces have been "intensively using" this type of projectiles for about a month "to carry out combat missions along the border, the front line and the sea coast."
"The gliding bombs are equipped with "wings" to provide them with additional flight range, and fly low and far enough to evade some air defense means," the publication clarifies.
Recently, the aviation of the Russian army has begun to actively use aerial bombs, which have universal planning and correction modules (UMPC), RIA Novosti writes. Thanks to this, combat aircraft can strike at fortified areas without being exposed to the fire of anti-aircraft missile systems.
Gliding bombs are used to hit targets at a distance. In such a way that the aircraft does not have to enter the area of operation of the enemy's air defense forces. This type of weapon got its name due to the ability to fly at a target, gliding in the air, without using rocket engines.
Such bombs can be dropped from airplanes or unmanned aerial vehicles. They have different types of combat units - conventional, cluster or even nuclear.
Western countries regard Ukraine's alleged May offensive as "preparing the ground" for negotiations with the Russian side by the end of the year, The Wall Street Journal newspaper noted on May 7, citing unnamed officials.
European officials told the publication that the US National Security Council supports negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, while the State Department and the CIA are skeptical - they want to look at the outcome of Kiev's counteroffensive.
"We see the highest activity of enemy aircraft, we see the highest activity on the perimeter and inside our front," Prigozhin's Telegram channel quotes his press service as saying.
Earlier in the day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was confident in the supply of combat aircraft to Kiev when the Ukrainian army begins active hostilities. He did not specify the exact dates, but stressed that it would happen soon.
Angelina Milchenko