Russia has deployed 48 Iskander missile launchers along the border with Ukraine, the deputy head of the Defence Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate, Vadym Skibitskyy, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine, as quoted by Radio Liberty.
"There were 46, now there are 48. Two launchers were added, they made an additional tactical group, which is used to launch ballistic missiles from the territory of Russia," Skibitskyy said.
Kharkiv and other frontline cities of Ukraine regularly suffer from Iskanders. In particular, on the night of 17 February, the Russian army attacked Slovyansk in Donetsk Region with an Iskander-M missile system, and supposedly fired Kh-22 missiles at Kramatorsk. As a result of the Russian missile attacks on Kramatorsk and Slovyansk, four people were killed and two were injured.