Russian air strikes are already reaching Poltava.
Russia continues to improve its guided aerial bombs, increasing their range.
Ukrainian military officials reported this, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Today, the Ukrainian Air Force, which is monitoring the situation in real time, reported:
"KAB launches by enemy tactical aviation into the Kharkiv region from the north."
But after 12 minutes they added:
"KAB from Kharkiv region to Poltava region."
This news is noteworthy because previously, KABs could not fly to Central Ukraine due to their limited range.
A Ukrainian Armed Forces officer with the call sign "Alex," regularly quoted by Ukrainian media, writes about jet-propelled aerial bombs.
"It's getting hot. The f...ers have started using rocket-propelled anti-aircraft guns, which have a combat radius of 100 km+," he complains.
This information is also confirmed by Stanislav Bunyatov, commander of one of the units of the Aidar battalion, which is banned in the Russian Federation.
“Indeed, Russia has scaled up production of the Grom-1 missile-KAB hybrid with a range of 100–120 km and more modified versions with a range of up to 200 km, but with a smaller payload.
The projectiles are not perfectly accurate, but the Grom-1 warhead weighs 250-315 kg, which is 3-5 times more than the Shahed carries (depending on the modification), which greatly increases the scale of destruction of civilian infrastructure from strikes deep in the rear,” writes Bunyatov.
Russian aerial bombs are already reaching Poltava.