Hennadii Khazan, president of the Ukrainian Aviation Association of Pilots and Aircraft Owners, shared the information on Espreso TV.“You could drive Russian aircraft away from the borders with guided aerial bombs as soon as the day after tomorrow, if Ukrainian allies supplied us with long-range air-to-air missiles that can engage at 140–160 km from launch. Then Ukraine would be able to strike and destroy Russian aircraft before they could reach their firing range. The reason they began using jet‑powered guided aerial bombs was one attempt to counter this — if Ukraine used long‑range missiles to keep striking the front line, the Russians would launch from greater distances, so Ukrainians couldn’t hit them. Given that Ukraine doesn’t have a very large stock of long‑range air‑to‑air missiles, the Russians are currently able to use these jet‑powered guided aerial bombs from deeper inside Russian territory,” the expert explained.Khazan noted that a certain number of new aircraft and long‑range air‑to‑air missiles would force the Russians either to stop using guided aerial bombs altogether or greatly reduce their ability to drop them, thereby significantly lowering the number of guided aerial bombs the Russians could employ against Ukraine.On October 24, the Russian army used guided aerial bombs for the first time to strike civilian infrastructure in Ukraine's Odesa region.