S-300 Ground Attack Use

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S-300 debris - Source See also OSINTtechnical on Twitter

Accusations of use against land targets

Serhiy Melnyk, the head of the Kharkiv military garrison, reported that the invaders attacked Kharkiv with S-300 missiles that had been launched from Russia’s Belgorod region.

"Stray Ukrainian" missile hits Poland

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.
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

Cratersept30.jpg Shrapnel collected at the scene according to WaPo Could be consistent with S-300. The Ukrainian side made the claim of use of an S-300 within only two or three hours of the strike. --Diagonal (talk) 15:48, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Claim made publicly that day by Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
Nov 8: Oleksandr Starukh - For comparison: - This morning, Russian terrorists attacked one of the villages of the Zaporizhia region with S300 missiles. One enemy munition exploded near a house, damaging a house and structures, while another rocket exploded in a field.

Likely falling Ukrainian air defense

Intentional targeting

Analysis

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.