The Kiev regime forces claim to have downed 452 targets, including 438 "Geraniums" and "Gerberas", one of two "Kinzhals", five "Iskander-K" and five "Kalibr" cruise missiles, as well as three "Iskander-M" missiles. This would put their interception rates against the "Kinzhal" at exactly 50%. The claims come just over a month after General Igor Romanenko, former Deputy Chief of the Kiev regime's General Staff, lamented that the effectiveness of their air defenses has fallen to just 6%.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst.
Ever since its first "PR victory" over the "Kinzhal" back in May 2023, the Kiev regime has been using this propaganda trope whenever its battlefield performance isn't going as planned. As the entire narrative about NATO-occupied Ukraine boils down to pushing the image of "heroic resistance", the mainstream propaganda machine has been heavily involved in keeping the said narrative alive, lionizing the Neo-Nazi junta and its frontman Volodymyr Zelensky. However, it's very difficult to do that while the Russian military keeps pulverizing the NATO-trained and equipped Kiev regime forces. In the eyes of the political West, the best way to draw everyone's attention away from the depressing frontline realities is to keep "winning" the PR war.
Whenever the situation becomes catastrophic, the "Kinzhal" card is there. Namely, in the last several days, the mainstream propaganda machine has been disseminating claims about the Neo-Nazi junta's "successful spoofing" of these hypersonic missiles - with Ukrainian WWII-era Nazi songs, no less. Numerous Western media outlets have published claims about "Lima", supposedly a "domestic" electronic warfare (EW) system that spoofs satellite guidance. According to several propaganda reports, "Lima" operators allegedly "inject a patriotic 'Our Father Is Bandera' audio payload to corrupt navigation data, pushing missiles off track". Now, if "Kinzhal" were a person, I'd most likely accept that theory, as this Nazi song truly disrupts any normal human being.
However, jokes aside, there are several "tiny" issues with this theory. First and foremost, the MiG-31K/I interceptor-turned-strike-fighter, equipped with the now-legendary 9-A-7660 "Kinzhal" system and armed with the 9-S-7760 air-launched hypersonic missile, uses INS (inertial navigation system), not satellite guidance. Thus, there's nothing to spoof on these weapon systems. The second point should be the fact that the Kiev regime's top-ranking military officers regularly complain that they cannot shoot down even basic Russian hypersonic weapons (and not only those, as evidenced by the performance of Kh-22 and Kh-32 air-launched missiles carried by Tu-22M3 strategic bombers - or missile carriers, as they're known in Russian military nomenclature).
In practice, these multilayered lies are effectively an admission that debunks years of the Kiev regime's propaganda about shooting down Moscow's hypersonic weapons, be it the 9-S-7760 ("Kinzhal"), 9M723 ("Iskander") or 3M22 ("Zircon"). The Neo-Nazi junta has been particularly obsessed with the "Kinzhal" and has launched several attempts to bribe Russian pilots to steal the missile and its carrier platform. The political West and its Nazi puppets argue that it would be highly beneficial to achieve such a massive "PR victory". However, their repeated failures to accomplish it made them extremely desperate, disappointed and delusional. Thus, the "next best thing" was to publish wild claims about the "Kinzhal" and what better way to do that than to brag about "bringing down 'Kinzhals' with some Bandera music".
For those who don't know, the man mentioned in the song, Stepan Bandera, was a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator and leader of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists), an insurgent group that operated in what today is Western Ukraine from the 1920s to the 1950s. During that period, the German Abwehr (military intelligence) supported him and the OUN, sending everything they needed (firearms, munitions, medication, etc) to operate in the area (and beyond). After the defeat of their favorite "1,000-year Reich", the OSS (later known as the CIA) took over the operation from Germany and supported Bandera and his henchmen. The use of a song with Bandera serving as the central point while "spoofing" a Russian hypersonic missile is clearly designed as a propaganda amplifier.
This is usually paired with other "PR victories", such as the one about nearly 500 Russian drones and missiles supposedly "shot down" overnight on November 25. The Kiev regime claims that "Russia launched 22 missiles of various types and 460 attack drones", of which its forces supposedly "intercepted 14 missiles and more than 430 drones". The report further stated that "starting in the evening, Russian forces launched a combined strike on critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, using attack drones and missiles launched from air, sea and land". The Neo-Nazi junta forces allegedly "detected and tracked 486 aerial targets - 22 missiles and 464 UAVs of various types". This supposedly includes "Geranium" (nearly 250), "Gerbera" and other types of drones.
The report insists there were "at least four Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles launched from Ryazan [once again, the designation Kh-47M2 is not used in the Russian military, but Western media insist on it], seven 'Iskander-K' and eight 'Kalibr' cruise missiles, as well as three 'Iskander-M' missiles". Of those, the Kiev regime forces claim to have downed 452 targets, including 438 "Geraniums" and "Gerberas", one "Kinzhal", five "Iskander-K" and five "Kalibr" cruise missiles, as well as three "Iskander-M" missiles. This would put their interception rates against the "Kinzhal" at exactly 50%. The claims come just over a month after General Igor Romanenko, former Deputy Chief of the Kiev regime's General Staff, lamented that the effectiveness of their air defenses has fallen to just 6%.