{"id":282256,"date":"2024-02-22T14:40:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=282256"},"modified":"2024-02-23T08:35:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T08:35:25","slug":"russia-deploys-48-iskander-missile-launchers-along-ukraines-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=282256","title":{"rendered":"Russia deploys 48 Iskander missile launchers along Ukraine\u2019s border"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The New Voice of Ukraine \u2013 Feb 21, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Russia has deployed 48\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.nv.ua\/nation\/explosion-at-russian-missile-factory-video-50390873.html\">launchers<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Iskander\u00a0missile system along the border with Ukraine, Deputy Head of Ukraine\u2019s HUR Main Intelligence Directorate, Major General\u00a0Vadym\u00a0Skibitskyi, <a href=\"https:\/\/interfax.com.ua\/news\/interview\/968704.html\">said<\/a> in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine on Feb. 21.<\/p>\n<p>Two additional launchers have been added to the border since September 2023, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were 46, now there are 48,\u201d\u00a0Skibitskyi\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo launchers have been added, they have created an additional tactical group used for launching ballistic missiles from Russian territory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Due to the limited production of\u00a0Iskander\u00a0missile systems in Russia, the rapid increase in the number of launchers along the border is challenging, he said.<\/p>\n<p>As of late February, Russia lacks the forces to launch an offensive in the western strategic sector, including\u00a0Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, and the Kyiv oblasts,\u00a0Skibitskyi\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>A major explosion occurred on the grounds of\u00a0Votkinsk\u00a0Machine Building Plant near Russia\u2019s Izhevsk, Udmurtia, as seen in video footage widely shared by local social media accounts on Feb. 7.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.nv.ua\/nation\/russia-deploys-48-iskander-launchers-on-ukraine-s-border-hur-50394840.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The short-range Iskander missiles can carry both conventional and nuclear warheads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":265010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282258,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282256\/revisions\/282258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}