Ukraine launches major drone attack on Russian bombers, security official says
Ukraine launches major drone attack on Russian bombers, security official says
Reported strikes on four airbases in Siberia as both sides escalate cross-border incursions before planned peace talks
Ukraine has launched a “large-scale” drone attack against Russian military bombers in Siberia, striking more than 40 warplanes thousands of kilometres from its own territory, a security official said.
The claims could not be independently verified. But if confirmed, the attacks would mark Ukraine’s most damaging drone strike of the war to date, amid an escalation in cross-border incursions before planned peace talks in Istanbul on Monday.
“Ukrainian security services are carrying out a large-scale special operation aimed at destroying enemy bombers far from the front, in Russia,” the official was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying, adding a fire had broken out at the targeted Belaya airbase.
And when Russia inevitably retaliates we'll be reading headlines about unprovoked escalation by Russia.
Russia's been bombing Ukrainian schools and hospitals, if Russia does retaliate I don't think a drone attack on war planes is sufficient to call it "provoked".
well, that's war.
The video footage looks like very neat attacks on exclusively military targets so good job from Ukraine on this one.
This sounds like an ingenious operation that has been reported to have taken one and a half years to come to fruition.
the operation involved hiding explosive-laden drones inside the roofs of wooden sheds and loading them onto trucks that were driven to the perimeter of the air bases.
Reports have claimed that Ukraine managed to smuggle modified truck containers, which were equipped with capabilities for launching drones, into Russian territory. These trucks were reportedly stationed near Russian nuclear bombers' bases. Ukrainian drones were launched autonomously from the backs of containers, as per a report on Iran Observer.