Why Russia’s Glide Bombs Are So Hard for Ukraine to Stop | WSJ Equipped
Russia is using cheap, highly-explosive glide bombs to devastating effect in Ukraine. Moscow has been launching thousands of these massive retrofitted Soviet-era explosives at Ukraine, putting further strains on their military. These weapons were used against Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv and the assault on the eastern city of Avdiivka. So what can Ukraine do?
WSJ explains how these bombs work and why they are so hard for Kyiv to counter.
Chapters:
0:00 Russia’s cheap explosives
0:32 Glide bombs, explained
3:30 How Russia is using glide bombs
5:05 What can Ukraine do?
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