According to Defence Express, during the attack on Kyiv on 7 August, it was not a Shahed but an Iskander-K missile that hit the Cabinet of Ministers building. Its warhead did not explode. The fire in the building was caused by the ignition of missile fuel.
This is evidenced by an analysis of the debris. Defence Express received information about the type of weapon used by Russia from sources that it did not disclose.
According to official data, Russia used nine Iskander-K cruise missiles and four Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles during that attack. Four Iskander-K missiles were shot down.
Preliminary data announced by the mayor immediately after the attack indicated that debris from a Shahed-type drone had hit the building.
The use of a missile was confirmed by the EU Ambassador to Ukraine, Katarina Mathernova. Together with other heads of diplomatic missions, she visited the site of the strike today and was shown the remains of the missile.
This is not the first time Russia has used these types of missiles. It used Iskander-K missiles to strike a theatre in Chernihiv in 2023.
‘It should be noted that if the warhead of the missile, which weighs about 450 kg, had detonated normally, the consequences of this strike would have been much greater,’ Defence Express commented.