Incidents

The shelling of Ukraine on July 8: The Russian Federation showed a video with a rocket flight over the Caspian Sea

The footage shows the rocket flies above the water at low altitude. In the area of ​​the Caspian Sea are the starting lines of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The network showed a video on which the locals recorded the flight of the Russian rocket over the Caspian Sea on July 8. This day there was a blow to the hospital "Ohmatdit". The video was published on Telegram by Ukrainian military correspondent Andriy Tsaplienko.

"The flight of winged missiles towards Ukraine over the Caspian Sea at the Rady Height," he signed the video. It should be noted that the monitoring channels have repeatedly reported that there are launchers for Russian rockets near the Caspian Sea. Earlier, Bellingcat investigators reported that Russia had attacked Ohmatdit with a winged X-101 rocket. Experts analyzed the video of the rocket, created a 3D model of the X-101 rocket and contacted rocket experts.

The Russian rocket has characteristic features that are clearly visible in the video. FT journalists also stated that the X-101 Russian rocket found Western components. According to them, in January 2024, the analysis of the fragments of the X-101 rocket showed the presence of more than 50 Western components. For the most part, American production, mainly intended for the civil market. Later, the material, which said that Russia almost 8 times increased the production of winged missiles X-101.