Who remembers when they were somewhat reliable?

Russian forces have been operationally encircled in Tetkino, Kursk Oblast.

Unidentified missile in the direction of Kharkiv City

Explosion in Kharkiv

Another missile to Kharkiv

3rd missile to Kharkiv

4th missile

Explosion in Kharkiv

5th missile to Kharkiv

Columns of smoke are rising over the suburbs

6th missile to Kharkiv

Explosion in Kharkiv

7th missile to Kharkiv

The 7th missile disappeared, likely a misidentification.

These had the characteristics of Iskander-Ms, but no activity was recorded at any of the OTRK complexes.

Kharkiv

Impacts were recorded in the Kyivskyi district. This is where one of the KABs from earlier hit.

Footage confirming that a Patriot Air defence system intercepted a Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile over Kyiv yesterday. My guess is that this missile was the other one from Bryansk which "disappeared" and I assumed to be a misidentification.

The other Iskander then went on hit at/near the Patriot launcher position. This is the third confirmed instance of an Iskander-M interception

A Russian Lancet drone just impacted at/near Sumy airport, nearly 30km from the frontline. An explosion was heard.

With us now having confirmation of an Iskander-M being intercepted over Kyiv, we can update these initial statistics.

Looking back at my coverage of the strikes, I can now say that 11 Iskanders were launched, rather than 10. This brings the total missiles launched in this attack to 28 launches, 4 of which were intercepted (2 Kalibrs, 1 Kh-101 and 1 Iskander-M)

This would mean that the interception rate was 14.3%, rather than 10.7%. As for the other statistics in my estimations, footage which surfaced after this initial post seems to confirm my figures.

As for the interception rates for individual types of missiles, we have:
25% of Kh-101s
15.4% of Kalibrs
9.1% of Iskanders

This translates to:
17.6% of cruise missiles
9.1% of ballistic missiles
And of course, 0% for the single Kh-31P anti-radar missile.

Satellite imagery of the Borisoglebsk Airbase in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan.

As of June 6, at the airfield were:
3 Tu-160 strategic bombers
2 Tu-22M3 strategic bombers
3 Tu-214 passenger aircraft

2 of the 3 Tu-160s flew to the Caspian Sea during yesterday's missile attack on Ukraine, however did not launch missiles or conduct any launch maneuvers.

3 of the 4 Tu-22M3s stationed there are currently undergoing modernisation work at the neighbouring Kazan Aviation Plant, however previous leaked documents indicated that the plant also had orders to conduct repairs for 7 Tu-160s and 2 Tu-22M3s.

Prior to Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb, these 3 Tu-160s were stationed at Belaya Airbase in Irkutsk Oblast. This redeployment to Borisoglebsk Airbase follows a wider pattern of strategic bombers redeploying to airbases not previously used for bombers, often in the far east of Russia.

For example, 5 Tu-160s are now stationed at Elizovo Airbase in Kamchatka Krai, 1 Tu-160 is stationed at Ugolny Airbase in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and 3 Tu-160s are stationed at Ramenskoye airport in Moscow Oblast.

Image credit: t.me/StrategicaviationT