The United Kingdom Intelligence services have pointed this Friday to the “difficulties” faced by Russia’s air defense systems in the face of Ukraine’s “growing capabilities” to launch drone attacks and hit targets “effectively” despite Russian advances within the framework of its invasion, unleashed in February 2022.
Thus, they have reported that kyiv reported on November 5 about an attack with drones and missiles against a Russian base located around the Donetsk airport – in eastern Ukraine and under Russian occupation – “used for the storage, manufacturing and launching” of unmanned devices against Ukrainian territory.
“One of the buildings, supposedly used to store explosive warheads, was destroyed in the Ukrainian attack, while two other buildings suffered damage and a fourth suffered minimal damage to its roof,” they explained, according to a statement published by the British Ministry of Defense on its account on the social network X.
Along these lines, they have pointed to damage to drone launch infrastructure, a fuel warehouse and a weapons warehouse, before specifying that “reports from open sources indicate that a thousand Geran-2s were stored at the base”, a type of drone used by the Russian Army.
“Russia would have begun during the summer to build this infrastructure for unmanned aerial devices and launch points around the airport to support the increase in the scale of these operations against Ukrainian targets,” the British Intelligence services have stated.
Therefore, they have emphasized that these types of attacks “emphasize the difficulties of Russian air defense systems in protecting military locations within range of the growing Ukrainian capabilities in terms of unmanned aerial devices, particularly this close to the front line.”
“Furthermore, it underscores Ukraine’s continued ability to carry out effective and combined airstrikes against Russian targets, even as Russian forces continue to exert pressure along multiple points along the front line,” they concluded, referring to the advances of Russian troops in several eastern Ukrainian provinces.