The Air Force needs to strengthen and wait for the return of Ukrainian soldiers from training.
The Russian occupiers failed to plunge Ukraine into a blackout with their missile strikes on the energy infrastructure in the winter period. Now the enemy can change tactics, so in the summer you should prepare for strikes on other objects.
“Regarding the massive shelling of the energy infrastructure, it is clear that the Ukrainian energy industry has already adapted to such a confrontation with the enemy, quickly mobilizing brigades and restoring damage. The daylight hours are getting longer, and energy consumption is less. The enemy saw that the goals were not achieved, so maybe there will be reduction of attacks on energy infrastructure facilities,” Yuriy Ignat, a representative of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said in an interview with NV.
According to him, Ukraine has already gone through the spring and summer periods of the war in 2022. The representative of the Air Force assumed that nothing will change, but the enemy will have problems with personnel, since the mobilized must be trained, and in a month Russia lost such a number of soldiers in Ukraine that can be compared with the number of personnel of the army of an average European country.
At the same time, Hnat warned that Ukraine should prepare for strikes by the occupiers on other important objects. In his opinion, the enemy can hit transport infrastructure or hydraulic structures with missiles.
“That’s why the Air Force should strengthen and wait for the return of our soldiers from exercises as soon as possible. And with them the arrival of air defense/anti-missile assets, such as the SAMP/T and Patriot air defense systems. This is exactly what we need against ballistics and certain types of cruise missiles , such as the Kh-22. And protect priority areas with them from strikes, including ballistic missiles,” Ignat said.
Russian missile strikes on Ukraine
Russia began to use non-standard methods of conducting airstrikes on the territory of Ukraine. The spokesman of the command of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuriy Ignat, said that the Russians started launching rocket attacks at night.
Earlier, the head of the Joint Coordination Press Center of the Southern Defense Forces, Nataliya Gumenyuk, noted that the Russian military command began to resort to limited missile strikes instead of the former massive volleys.
At the same time, in Russia itself, news aggregators are calling for strikes on the electrical infrastructure that supports Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPPs).