The Russian Defense Ministry has reported that on the evening of July 28, Russia attacked a Ukrainian command post in Dnipro (Dnepropetrovsk) with “precision weapons” after Ukraine launched an attack on a Russian command post in Taganrog in Russia’s Rostov oblast (province).
According to the Russians, the incoming missile was shot down but it crashed into buildings in the town, including an art museum. The weapon used by Ukraine was a converted S-200 air defense missile reconfigured against ground targets.
A day earlier, on the 28th, Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky visited Dnipro where he presented an award to Ukrainian Commander in Chief Valerii Zaluzhny and met with a number of Ukrainian commanders including Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi and the chief of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov.
Zelensky is closely tracked by Russian intelligence. Thus his arrival in Dnipro and meeting with Ukrainian generals and field commanders as well as Ukraine’s military intelligence chief could have tipped off the location of the command center in Dnipro.
