This tactic is behind the Russian drone attacks

Combat drones from Russia attack Ukraine. Over and over, over and over. Now a Ukrainian military expert explains the tactics behind it.

According to Vladislav Zelesnyov, a colonel in the Ukrainian army, the drones fly mostly at night and along the great Dnipro river. “Logically, not everything is visible in the sky at night,” said the colonel of the RBK-Ukraina agency.

Bypass the air defense of Ukraine

The flight path from the south along the Dnipro was also chosen to avoid Ukrainian air defenses if possible.

Russian forces recently launched waves of kamikaze drones, which drop vertically at their targets, against Ukraine’s cities for several nights in a row. Most of the Iranian-made Shahed drones were shot down by anti-aircraft forces. Nevertheless, falling debris caused significant damage.

Mass drone strikes

According to the Ukrainian air defense, a missile and 43 drones were shot down on Monday, 22 of them in Kiev alone. A 19-year-old was injured and treated in hospital after a house was hit in a Russian attack.

For days, Russia is increasingly attacking at night with Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze combat drones. Russian military bloggers reported that in addition to Kiev, Poltava, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions were hit. (EU)