A representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Vadim Skibitsky, said that Russia may have up to 10 missiles of the type that attacked the city of Dnipro on Thursday, Ukrinform reports.
There are different versions of what kind of missile it is, but Skibicki reiterated the version laid out earlier Friday by the Central Intelligence Agency - that it was a "Kedar" type missile. The day before, Putin called her with the hitherto unknown name "Oreshnik".
Skibitsky explained that in order to put a missile into mass production in Russia, it is necessary to conduct at least 10 test launches, and the Dnipro launch is also a kind of test. So many launches, according to him, can be observed on the example of the "Bulava" rocket.
US administration sources also told the BBC and many other media outlets the day before that they estimate Russia has few missiles of this new type. The US, unlike the GUR, defined the missile as an experimental development based on the RS-26 "Rubezh" medium-range missile.