Ukraine risks being left without air defence and needs support from the West – RUSI report
Iranian drones proved to be more effective than russian cruise missiles
According to experts at the RUSI Defence and Security Analytical Centre, Ukraine risks being left without air defence capabilities and needs urgent help from the West to defend itself against a flood of cheap Iranian drones that russia is using to bombard the Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
“Further Western support is needed to ensure that Kyiv can counter moscow’s updated approach to the air war in Ukraine,” RUSI’s defence analysts Justin Bronk, Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds stated in a new report on Monday.
Source. CNBC.
Details. It is pointed out that russia’s attempts at strategic air attack have been limited to expensive cruise and ballistic missiles at a much more limited scale. russians failed to achieve strategically decisive damage during the first seven months of the invasion.
“However, the latest iteration is a more focused and sustainable bombardment of the Ukrainian electricity grid, blending hundreds of cheap Iranian-supplied Shahed-136 loitering munitions against substations with continued use of cruise and ballistic missiles against larger targets,” the experts say.
This combination increases the risks for Ukraine, so analysts warn that the West should “avoid complacency about the need to urgently bolster Ukrainian air-defence capacity.”
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