The Kremlin Burned $325 Million on a Failed Night of Terror Against Ukraine

The attack on Ukraine on February 3 cost Russia nearly $325 million. A Russian city like Kaluga could have lived for an entire year on that amount of money.

On the night of February 3, Russian forces carried out a massive combined aerial attack on Ukraine’s energy sector, using 562 air attack assets. Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of the Ministry of Defense calculated how much the Kremlin spent on this strike.

HUR recalled that during the night of February 3, Russia launched Iskander and RM-48U ballistic missiles, 3M22 Zircon and 3M55 Oniks hypersonic missiles, as well as Kh-101 cruise missiles, 9M728 Iskander-K, and Kh-32 missiles at Ukraine.

At the same time, the enemy employed Geran-2 attack drones (the Russian version of the Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drone), Harpia drones, as well as Gerbera decoy drones.

The total cost of the weapons used amounted to $324.8 million—more than $190 million higher than during the massive strike on January 20.

With this amount of money, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of the Russian Federation, with a population of about 144,000 people, could have lived for an entire year, or the city of Kaluga, with a population of more than 320,000. This sum is also equivalent to half of the annual budget of Kostroma Oblast.

“Instead of improving living conditions and developing infrastructure in its own regions, the Kremlin spent this money on strikes against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure,” HUR stated.

At the same time, the majority of the resources spent—79.2%—proved to be ineffective: Ukrainian air defense destroyed 450 aerial targets. Russia has no tangible success in its war against Ukraine and therefore resorts to systematic terror against the civilian population in an attempt to undermine the unity of Ukrainian society.

EMPR