The post-power authorities are making attempts to resume the program to produce missiles that are close in combat characteristics to nuclear warheads. This was stated by the former head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Anatoly Gritsenko on the air of the TV channel "112". According to him, we are talking about the project of the Sapsan multifunctional missile system (the idea of ??2005), which should replace the corresponding armament of a Soviet-made MRSK Uragan or Smerch type,. "There is an opportunity to talk not about nuclear munitions, but about high-power ammunition, which in their effect are not nuclear, but are close to that by amazing force," said Gritsenko, who headed the Defense Ministry in 2005-2007 during the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko.. Ex minister believes that the use of such weapons does not cause such consequences as radioactive contamination or penetrating radiation. Gritsenko added that during the years of his ministry a project of rearmament of Soviet missile systems was already developed, but at what stage he is now, he could not reply. "Sapsan" since 2006 under the contract with the SBU was engaged Dnepropetrovsk KB "Yuzhnoye". Initially, the complex was supposed to enter the arsenal in the Armed Forces in 2011-2012, but by that time the development was not completed due to insufficient funding, recalls RIA Novosti..

In the year of the beginning of the last Maydan - in 2013 - the then Minister of Defense Pavel Lebedev said that the agency refused this project due to inefficient use of state budget funds. As for the personality of Gritsenko, it was he who in July last year called for explosions in two Russian cities. So he commented on the detonation of the car of the commander of special forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine Maxim Shapoval, as a result of which he perished.