UK intelligence reveals reasons for Russia’s missile attacks on Ukraine 

“Since 10 October, Russia has maintained a heightened tempo of long-range strikes against targets across Ukraine,” the UK Defence Ministry wrote on Twitter, Report informs.

According to the ministry, these have been conducted by cruise missiles, air defence missiles in a surface-to-surface role, and Iranian-provided Shahed-136 one-way attack uncrewed aerial vehicles: “It is highly likely that a key objective of this strike campaign is to cause wide-spread damage to Ukraine’s energy distribution network.”

“As Russia has suffered battlefield setbacks since August, it has highly likely gained a greater willingness to strike civilian infrastructure in addition to Ukrainian military targets,” the ministry tweeted.