Russia has deployed Iskander-M cellular battlefield missile launchers inside 60 km (forty miles) of the Ukrainian border, General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces stated on Sunday.
“Then enemy has expanded the quantity of troops withinside the Belgorod vicinity with the aid of using moving and concentrating extra units,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated in its each day morning update.
“According to to be had information, Iskander-M launchers were deployed 60 km from the border with Ukraine,” it stated, with out imparting greater element at the vicinity of the systems.
Reuters couldn’t right away to affirm the reports. There turned into no on the spot response from Moscow to the reports.
Belgorod is a metropolis and the executive centre of Russia’s Belgorod vicinity, north of the border with Ukraine.
The Iskander, a cellular ballistic missile device codenamed SS-26 Stone with the aid of using NATO, changed the Soviet Scud missile. Its guided missiles have quite a number as much as 500 km (three hundred miles) and might bring traditional or nuclear warheads.
Russia stated on Friday it desired to manipulate all of southern Ukraine. Kyiv stated this confirmed Moscow had wider desires than its declared purpose of demilitarising and “denazifying” the country. Ukraine and the West name the invasion, now in its 0.33 month, an unjustified conflict of aggression.