{"id":603531,"date":"2026-11-14T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=603531"},"modified":"2026-11-14T13:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T10:07:55","slug":"russia-is-trying-to-split-ukraine-along-the-dnipro-river-using-upgraded-iskander-missiles-the-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/russia-is-trying-to-split-ukraine-along-the-dnipro-river-using-upgraded-iskander-missiles-the-telegraph","title":{"rendered":"Russia Is Trying To Split Ukraine Along The Dnipro River Using Upgraded Iskander Missiles \u2013 The Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Upgrades to Russian ballistic missiles have enabled them to change direction in flight and strike targets with high precision, effectively splitting Ukraine in two, The Telegraph reports. Russian forces have equipped their Iskander missiles with optical and radar seekers that allow the weapons to adjust their trajectories in the final moments of their descent towards a target.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ukrainian presidential adviser Serhii Beskrestnov, these seekers, which have meter-level accuracy, were used in recent strikes on bridges in Kyiv. The attacks disrupted transport links between the city\u2019s left and right banks and, according to Ukrainian officials, are part of Russia\u2019s escalating efforts to split Ukraine in two.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, <b>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/b> said that Russia was trying to divide Ukraine along the Dnipro River and make life as difficult as possible for its people.<\/p>\n<p>A Ukrainian official told the Financial Times that Moscow\u2019s plan also involves disrupting the distribution of electricity from west to east, potentially leaving millions of people without power.<\/p>\n<p>The Dnipro runs through central Kyiv before flowing south, serving as one of Ukraine\u2019s most important waterways and transport corridors, the publication notes. For several weeks, Russia has been attempting to disable eight of the capital\u2019s main bridges using jet-powered drones, seeking to paralyze transport links across the city as much as possible. It then began striking the largest bridges with ballistic missiles, including four missiles that hit the Pivnichnyi Bridge over the course of one night last weekend.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><i>\u201cOptical and radar seekers, which are likely a recent development, scan the terrain with radar seconds before the warhead detonates, allowing the missiles to evade Ukrainian electronic warfare systems,\u201d<\/i> the article says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upgrades to Russian ballistic missiles have enabled them to change direction in flight and strike targets with high precision, effectively splitting Ukraine in two, The Telegraph reports. Russian forces have equipped their Iskander missiles with optical and radar seekers that allow the weapons to adjust their trajectories in the final moments of their descent towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":603532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6af833005d94d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Russia Is Trying To Split Ukraine Along The Dnipro River Using Upgraded Iskander Missiles \u2013 The Telegraph"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143121,143122,143123],"class_list":["post-603531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna","tag-rossija","tag-ukraina"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603533,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603531\/revisions\/603533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}