Ukraine’s General Staff says it hit two Iskander launchers in the Bryansk region – which air-defence system was also targeted

Two launchers of the Iskander ballistic missile system and a Pantsir-S1 air-defence system were hit in the Bryansk region, on the Russian side of the border, according to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces. The General Staff’s post was published on the morning of Saturday, November 7, under the title “The Iskanders are no laughing matter,” and places the strikes within Friday, November 6 and the night to Saturday.

Kyiv does not yet give a picture of the scale of damage. It writes that the extent of the damage is “still being established,” but notes that the significance of the strike is already clear: every launcher put out of action, on the Ukrainian side’s account, limits ballistic attacks on Ukrainian cities. This is a claim by one side, without independent confirmation at the time of publication.

The Pantsir-S1, which combines guns and air-defence missiles, is described by the Staff as one of the systems that should protect Russian facilities from air attack.

Missiles were also launched from Bryansk overnight

Bryansk is no random target. In its report on the Russian attack of the same night, the General Staff recorded the Bryansk and Voronezh regions as launch areas for Iskander-M, Zircon, KN-23 and S-400 missiles. Together with the missiles, Russia launched a total of 172 drones, Shaheds (137 of them jet-powered), Gerbera and decoys, aimed mainly at the Kyiv area. By 09:00, 4 missiles and 149 drones had been shot down or neutralised by electronic warfare, while strikes were recorded at 24 locations and debris falls at 10. We described the damage in the capital in our report on the ballistic missiles and drones over Kyiv.

The same night, again according to the Ukrainian Staff, the Missile Forces used the Navy’s Neptune coastal systems against the Russian company Proton-Electrotex in Oryol. Kyiv links it to the production of switches-inverters for the 9M723 ballistic missiles of the Iskander-M and components for the “Kover” cruise missiles. In the occupied territories, Ukrainian forces say they struck supply depots in the Sokolohirsk and Zaidarivka areas of Luhansk and a concentration of drone operators near Novobohdanivka in Zaporizhzhia.

Iskander-M missiles were also among those Russia fired on the night to Saturday, as the Staff’s report shows. Ukrainian intelligence estimates that Russia has up to 700 ballistic missiles and can produce up to 110 a month. Kyiv is targeting both the launchers and the factories that supply them.

The General Staff closes its post with the message that operations against Russian military targets will continue “until Russia completely stops its armed aggression against Ukraine.”