S-300 Ground Attack Use

Accusations of use against land targets

 * Russian forces launch S-300 missiles against villages in Zaporizhzhia Oblast - Ukrainska Pravda, November 18, 2022


 * Enemy fires S-300 missiles at Zaporizhzhia region’s Vilniansk - Ukrinfom, November 17, 2022

"Stray Ukrainian" missile hits Poland

 * S-300 Missile Attack On Poland Likely Aimed At NATO Establishing A No-Fly Zone To Protect Ukraine’s Key Supply Routes & Infra - The Eurasian Times, November 19, 2022
 * Polish investigators say Ukrainian air defence missile fell in Przewodów - Ukrainska Pravda, September 26, 2023
 * Experts believe that it was a 5B55 missile from the S-300 system, produced in Russia. The prosecutor's office allegedly knows the exact location on Ukrainian territory where it was launched to down a target during a large-scale Russian missile attack on Ukrainian cities on 15 November 2022.


 * Polish experts confirm missile that hit grain facility was Ukrainian - media - Reuters, September 26, 2023
 * Sources with knowledge of the investigation told Rzeczpospolita that Poland had established that the missile that landed in the village of Przewodow was an S 300 5-W-55 air-defence missile fired from Ukrainian territory. "This rocket has a range of 75 km to 90 km," the newspaper cited a source as saying. "At that time, the Russian positions were in a place from which no Russian missile could reach Przewodow."

Potential incidents where deployed

 * Civilian convoy 'shelled near Zaporizhzhia' See Talk
 * Claim made publicly that day by Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
 * Why Russia is launching S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to attack   ground targets in Ukraine - Cvv News'', October 1, 2022



Analysis

 * Russia Now Firing S-300 Surface-To-Air Missiles At Land Targets In Ukraine: Official - THOMAS NEWDICK, The Drive, July 8, 2022
 * According to this account, the Belarusian military tested its S-300 air defense systems against “important ground targets on the territory of a potential enemy” during an exercise in the same year. Belarusian officials claimed this was the first time that the country had experimented with this capability, which allows an “adapted … S-300 to destroy ground targets tens of kilometers from firing positions."...At the time, Belarus was known to use the S-300PS (NATO codename SA-10 Grumble) version of the system, introduced in the mid-1980s and which includes 5V55R missiles which a maximum engagement range of up to 56 miles against aerial targets.


 * Russia Using S-300 Air Defense Missiles To Attack Ground Targets In Ukraine; US Army Veteran Decodes The Strategy - The Eurasian Times, July 17, 2022
 * Could Ukraine modify its S-300 missiles to attack ground targets? - Technology.org, March 23, 2023