One of missiles Russia launched at Kyiv Nov 17 contained nuclear warhead dummy

That’s according to the Strategic Communications Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, referring to the Ukraine-based Defense Express outlet, Ukrinform reports.

"Simply put - for this strike, the orcs took at least one Kh-55 missile from their ‘nuclear arsenal,’ ‘unscrewed’ the nuclear warhead and replaced it with a dummy before firing it at Ukraine. Although we should not rule it out that as events develop, at least a few such missiles will be seen," StratCom noted.

According to Technoilogy.org, this surprising discovery raises some interesting questions.

“There is a chance that the Russian Federation is running out of conventional missiles of Kh-555 modification and they are using Kh-55 instead. If a nuclear charge was taken out, does this mean Russian soldiers forgot to put a conventional warhead in its place? Or, if a nuclear warhead was taken out, where is it now?” the publication wrote.

There is also a chance that the missile with a dummy warhead existed in its current form, and was simply used as a somewhat less-expensive decoy with the aim to misguide the Ukrainian Air Defense systems.

As reported by Ukrinform, on November 17, four missiles and five Shahed drones were destroyed during an air raid alert over Kyiv.

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