Oleg Zhdanov noted that the attacks on residential buildings are targeted, because the Iskander is a high-precision weapon.

Russian Iskanders are high-precision weapons, so if such a missile flew into a residential building, that’s where they would hit it. The tactic of a second strike a couple of minutes after the first is used to maximize the number of victims.

“Experts say that according to statistics, in the first two minutes after the end of a fire raid, 20-25% of people come out of cover. By the third minute – already 70-80%. And if three minutes later a second missile arrives or a second fire raid begins, it’s like once it hits the survivors of the first raid, people who came out of shelters. If these are civilian objects, as was the case in Nikolaev and Odessa, then rescuers and an ambulance will arrive with a siren and flashing lights. What will people do – try to respond to this signal to come out of shelters. And then a second missile arrives,” said military expert Oleg Zhdanov in a commentary to TSN.

At the same time, he pointed out that the attacks on residential buildings were targeted, because the Iskander is a high-precision weapon, and the stated deviation is 10-20 meters. According to him, the Russians have 60-70 Iskander missiles in stock and can produce another 10-20 missiles monthly, so there are about a hundred of them in the arsenal.

“Where can they attack from? Take the aiming point, the same Odessa, and count 450 kilometers – so that it is guaranteed. Crimea and part of the occupied Kherson region fall into this circle. From the Rostov, Belgorod regions, the Russian Federation can reach some objects in Ukraine. The complex is mobile “, a launcher on a wheeled base. Deployment time is minutes, less than 30 minutes of readiness for launch, and deployment is generally five to seven minutes,” the expert concluded.

Terrorist attack on Odessa March 15, 2024 – main news

On March 15, the Russian Federation launched an attack on Odessa with two Iskander-M missiles. After the first strike, the relevant services arrived at the scene, but at that moment the Russians fired a second missile. As a result, 21 people died, dozens were hospitalized. Among the dead were police officers, a former vice-mayor, two rescuers, doctors, and an employee of an educational institution.

On March 17, we said goodbye to three victims of terrorists – the commander of the “Tsunami” regiment of the National Police brigade “Lyut” 41-year-old Alexander Gostishchev, the driver-firefighter Denis Kolesnikov and Alexander Berezny – the 62-year-old deputy director for the economic department of an out-of-school educational institution.

On March 18, Sergei Tetyukhin, who was the first deputy mayor of the city, took his last journey, changing his suit to a military uniform at the end of 2023.