The Banderol: the US$100,000 "missile spam" Russia is using to terrorise Odesa

In recent months the name "Banderol" has been increasingly cropping up in Ukrainian social media communities that track the weapons Russia uses in its attacks on Ukraine. On 9 August alone, Russian forces launched 11 Banderol missiles on Odesa, along with several Kh-59 cruise missiles. And although most were shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force, some of them got through.

By Illia Volynskyi