Russia spent more than $324 million on a massive air attack against Ukraine on the night of February 3. This was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense.
According to the HUR, on the night of February 3 Russian forces carried out a large-scale combined air strike against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, using a total of 562 aerial attack assets.
Data from the Air Force show that Russia employed Iskander and RM-48U ballistic missiles, 3M22 Zircon and 3M55 Onyx hypersonic missiles, Kh-101, 9M728 Iskander-K and Kh-32 cruise missiles. Alongside the missiles, the enemy used Geran and Garpia attack drones, as well as Gerbera decoy drones.
The total cost of the weapons used amounted to $324.8 million, according to the HUR. This is more than $190 million higher than the cost of Russia’s previous mass attack on Ukraine on January 20.
The intelligence agency noted that with this amount of money, Russia could have funded an entire year of life for the Jewish Autonomous Oblast with a population of about 144,000 people, or the city of Kaluga with more than 320,000 residents. The sum is also comparable to half of the annual budget of Russia’s Kostroma region.
Instead of improving living conditions and developing infrastructure in its own regions, the Kremlin chose to spend these funds on strikes against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure. At the same time, 79.2% of the resources were rendered ineffective, as Ukraine’s air defense forces destroyed 450 aerial targets.
The HUR emphasized that lacking tangible success in its war against Ukraine, the Kremlin resorts to systematic terror against civilians in an attempt to undermine Ukrainian societal unity.