Russia has started using jet-powered glide bombs to hit targets deep beyond the frontline, an upgrade to Moscow’s arsenal that poses further strains on Ukraine’s stretched air defences.
Retrofitted Soviet-era bombs known as KABs have hit targets in the southern Ukrainian regions of Odesa and Mykolayiv, as well as the eastern region of Poltava, for the first time in October. Up until then, the guided projectiles lobbed from Russian Su-34 jets had a range of up to 80km and were used mainly in the proximity of the frontline.
But some of these glide bombs are now fitted with a jet engine — an upgrade that increases their range up to 200km, according to Vadym Skibitsky, the deputy head of Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence service.
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