Russia spent at least $1.283 billion on a massive attack on Ukraine at night and in the morning of December 29, Ekonomichna Pravda calculated based on a report by the Ukrainian Air Force and open-source data on the cost of Russian weapons.
Thus, during this attack, the Russians launched:
- 36 Shahed-136/131 attack UAVs;
- 90 air-launched cruise missiles X-101/X-555/X-55;
- 8 X-22/X-32 cruise missiles;
- 14 S-300/S-400/Iskander-M ballistic missiles;
- 5 X-47M2 "Kinzhal" aerial ballistic missiles;
- 4 X-31P anti-radar missiles;
- one X-59 missile.
The cost of the hypersonic missile X-47 "Kinzhal" is approximately $10 million and more. Thus, six launches of these missiles cost at least $60 million.
Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 kamikaze strike drones cost from $20 to 50 thousand per unit. As a result, the launch of at least 36 such UAVs cost $720 thousand.
The cost of the X-101 missile, according to Forbes, is $13 million. In total, the launch of 90 missiles cost $1.17 billion.
The X-22 missile is estimated to cost $1 million, meaning that a total of $8 million worth of missiles of this type were produced.
The cost of the Iskander-M ballistic missile varies in the range of $3 million, so the missile launch cost $42 million.
The X-31P and X-59 missiles are estimated to cost $0.5 million each. The total cost of their use in this attack is $2.5 million.
Thus, Russia spent $1 billion 283 million 220 thousand on missiles and UAVs fired at Ukraine at night and in the morning of December 29.
An infographic of the massive missile attack on Ukraine this morning was also published online.
