UKRAINE, Oct. 20 — Russian forces started to use jet-powered glide bombs with an attack range of over 100 kilometers (62 miles), said a senior lieutenant of the Defence Forces with a call sign “Alex.”

Today, Russian forces launched a glide bomb to Poltava oblast through the Kharkiv region, said the Air Force of the Ukrainian Army. It was a third attack with jet-powered glide bombs on Ukraine. 

On Oct. 18, Russian forces attacked Lozova, a city, located in the south of Kharkiv oblast, with jet-powered glide bombs for the first time. The attack destroyed a house, injuring five people.

The Kharkiv Prosecutor’s Office back then reported that it was a jet type glide bomb of new modification with a flight range of over 130 kilometers (81 miles). Russians launched it from the occupied territory.

On Oct. 16, Russian forces tried the jet type glide bomb in Mykolaiv for the first time, said Stanislav Buniatov, the junior sergeant of Aidar Battalion.

After the attack on the Poltava region today, he also said that Russia increased production of the Grom-1 hybrid of missile and glide bomb with a range of over 100–120 kilometers (62-75 miles) and more modified versions with a range of up to 200 kilometers (124 miles), but with a smaller charge.

Buniatov said that such bombs aren’t perfectly accurate, but the explosive part of the Grom-1 weighs 250-315 kilograms, which is 3–5 times more than that of the Shahed.

“It significantly increases the scale of damage to civilian infrastructure from strikes deep in the rear,” said Buniatov.

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