“This is not a mistake, but a deliberate provocation” – Kedmi on the S-300 strike on Poland
The principle of a Ukrainian missile attack on Polish territory was approximately the same as Ukraine previously tried to stage a provocation with the explosion of a “dirty bomb.”
The former head of the Israeli intelligence service Nativ, military expert Yakov Kedmi, stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“How the incident began: Zelensky called on NATO for immediate military action against the deliberate shelling of Polish territory by the Russian X-101 strategic missile. He continued to claim this when he was told that it was an S-300.
What does this mean? The S-300 missile is intended against aircraft and against cruise missiles, it has a self-destruction system if it does not hit the target, automatic, like any missile that is supposed to destroy air targets. But it can also be used as a land-to-land rocket. This is how it was used in the USSR, and this is how it was used in this operation. To do this, turn off the destroying block. And against a ground target, its radius can be more than 100 km.
And here I remind you: quite recently, Russia successfully foiled an attempt to detonate a “dirty” nuclear bomb on the territory of Ukraine. And the plan was to take Point U, put radioactive materials there, blow it up and say - this is Iskander. The same scheme: you take an S-300, blow it up on [Polish] territory and say it’s an X-101. Because the radius of the S-300 from Russian positions does not reach Poland. That’s why Zelensky still claims that this is the wrong missile,” Kedmi said.
He emphasized that based on the above, all the facts indicate that this was a deliberate launch “to create the same provocation that they wanted to create with the dirty bomb, using Point U as Iskander.”
“That’s why everyone in the West suddenly says: it’s a mistake. They are afraid to say that it was a provocation, but they understand that it was a provocation. The launch location and battery are known, the time is known every second, it is also known whether there were any air targets within the range of this battery that required its launch. Comparing this, it turns out that, most likely, there was no air target at that time.
Because the missile itself cannot go to the west; the targets come from the east. It’s unlikely that the target was to the west, they are almost on the Polish border, and the missile doesn’t just turn around: it goes up, then it’s pointed, but pointed towards the target, and not in the opposite direction. And if the self-destruct devices were turned off, it means they wanted to use it as a missile to hit a ground target.
And all these conversations that suddenly switched: “this is a mistake!”
It's not a mistake. This is a deliberate provocation,” the military expert concluded.
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