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The Russian military has attacked a train station in the Kharkiv region as Kiev forces were unloading military equipment there.
Video footage of the strike surfaced online on June 30. The footage shows Iskander-M tactical ballistic missiles impacting several trains in the station, including one loaded with a number of main battle tanks. Several German-made Leopard 2 tanks were reported among those destroyed in the attack.
The Ukrainian military equipment was reportedly set to be sent to the front in Kharkiv before being detected and destroyed.
Just a day earlier, a similar attack was reported in the Zaporozhie region. Several Iskander-M hit a train situation where Kiev forces were massing military equipment. Armored personnel carriers and air defense systems were reportedly destroyed in the attack.
The Iskander-M missile has a range of nearly 500 kilometers. It can be armed with different conventional warheads, including a cluster munitions warhead, a fuel–air explosive enhanced-blast warhead, a high-explosive fragmentation warhead, an earth penetrator for bunker busting and an electromagnetic pulse device for anti-radar missions.
The highly-maneuverable missile is guided by a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system. It can be also equipped with an optical seeker with a digitized scene-mapping area correlator system for terminal guidance.
Russia increased the production of Iskander-M missiles after the start of the special military operation in Ukraine more than two years ago.
In recent months, the Russian military began to rely more on the missile to quickly target newly-discovered high-value military equipment.
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