Neither side in Russia’s war on Ukraine has been able to take firm control of the skies over Ukraine throughout the brutal conflict
Sources: Center for Strategic & International Studies ; Military Factory ; Military Today Despite the efforts to ensure a supply of air-defense missiles, Ukraine faces a formidable challenge. Kyiv must defend civilian and military infrastructure against missile strikes while also protecting its troops. Should Ukraine’s stock of missiles not be fully replenished, “this balancing act becomes harder,” the CSIS report says.
Ukraine began the war with one of the world’s most robust networks of surface-to-air missiles, a legacy from the Soviet Union. That included more than 30 battalions of S-300 long-range systems, according to Vasily Kashin, the director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, in addition to BUK M1 and Tor shorter-range batteries and aging systems such as the Osa and S-125.
Having failed to dominate the skies over Ukraine in the early months of the war, Russian planes relied heavily on firing standoff missiles from outside Ukrainian airspace. It also began to use Iranian-made drones to search for gaps in Ukraine’s antiaircraft network and to try to overwhelm the nation’s defenses. The waves of Russian attacks led the Ukrainians to use many of their air-defense missiles.
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