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

A Russian Kh-55 missile, downed over Kyiv on November 17, originally intended to carry a nuclear payload. At the same time, a nuclear warhead dummy was installed, an examination of the missile debris found.

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 devel, 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 sdiers forgot to put a conventional warhead in its place? Or, if a nuclear warhead was taken out, where is it now?” the publication wrote.

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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.