Two drones crashed this Monday on a highway in Russia’s Kaluga region, which borders the Moscow region to the north, with the local governor saying there was no explosive detonation.
“The territory has been cordoned off,” said the regional governor Vladislav Shapsha in the Telegram messenger.
According to Reuters, according to information provided by Vladislav Shapsha, the drones fell about 280-300 km from Moscow.
According to local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, in the Belgorod region, near the border with Ukraine, an explosive device fired by a “drone” fell on a power plant and started a fire.
“The preliminary cause of the fire is a bomb dropped from a drone,” Gladkov said on the social network, quoted by the Spanish agency EFE.
No one was hurt in the attack, he said.
Authorities in Russia’s Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, also reported an “increase in Ukrainian drone activity” over the past week.
The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said one such device was intercepted on Sunday by Russian electronic warfare equipment.
According to Starovoit, the “drone” belonged to the Ukrainian Azov Battalion.
The UK Ministry of Defense said on Monday that Russia had launched more than 300 “drones” against Ukraine in May, the most intense use of the weapon system since the start of the war.
According to British military intelligence, which issues a daily bulletin on the conflict, Russia’s intention will be to “force Ukraine to launch ‘stockpiles’ of valuable and advanced air defense missiles.”
British analysts say it is “unlikely that Russia has had any noticeable success” as Ukraine neutralized at least 90% of the attacks “using mostly the oldest and cheapest air defense systems.”
Analysts acknowledged that with these attacks, Moscow “also tried to locate and hit Ukrainian forces far behind the front lines.”
“However, Russia remains very ineffective in engaging such dynamic range targets due to weak targeting processes,” they added.
The war in Ukraine, with an uncertain balance of killed and wounded, plunged Europe into the most serious security crisis since World War II (1939-1945).
Kyiv’s Western allies are supplying Ukraine with weapons and imposing sanctions on Moscow to reduce Russia’s ability to finance military action.
Author: morning Post This Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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