Russian army used Iskander ballistic missile to attack Zhytomyr airport

Ukrainian defense reporter Illia Ponomarenko said in a Twitter account post early on Monday that Russian Armed Forces used Iskander short-range ballistic missile systems to attack a civilian airport near Zhytomyr, in central Ukraine.

The Iskander (NATO: SS-26 “Stone”) is a Russian road-mobile short-range ballistic missile with a range of up to 500 km. The Iskander has several different conventional warheads, including a cluster munitions warhead, a fuel-air explosive enhanced-blast warhead, a high explosive-fragmentation warhead, an earth penetrator for bunker busting and an electromagnetic pulse device for anti-radar missions. The missile can also carry nuclear warheads.

Twitter post states: “The airstrikes were conducted from Belarus, using Russian ballistic missile launchers.”

Kaynak: Defence Blog