Ukraine's attacks on Crimea are hurting sales of Russia's S-400 air defense system, spy chief claims

Sat, 09/23/2023 - 12:22

green military truck driving past building with giant orange/black — The vaunted surface-to-air S-400 "Triumf" missile system cannot safeguard Russia's occupation of the peninsula, Ukraine's spy chief said in a recent interview.
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Recent attacks on Crimea may end up hurting Russia's defense industry, Ukraine's spy chief said.
Lt. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov said the attacks show "the obvious inability of Russian air defense systems."
Budanov said drone strikes in Moscow are also making potential customers wary of the S-400.

Ukraine's armed forces are blasting holes in Russia's claimed military superiority, exposing its next-generation S-400 air defense system as not worth the billions of dollars that Moscow has been selling it for on the global market, one of Kyiv's top intelligence officials claimed in an interview this week.