Kyiv attacked a base in Russia that housed Iranian flight instructors in an attack that killed at least three other people and destroyed a stockpile of aircraft that wreaked havoc across Ukraine, it said.
Tehran is a key best friend of Moscow, and in its full-scale invasion, Russia has extensively used Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as the Shahed-136, to attack civilian sites across the country, namely electrical infrastructure.
Details have emerged about a June 21 attack via Ukrainian maritime forces subsidized through operators of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Russia’s ability to use drones.
These included several moves opposing the 726th Russian air defense exercise near the city of Yeysk in the Krasnodar region of southwestern Russia, which is used to exercise troops with the use of drones, the press service of the Russian Federation said. Ukrainian naval forces in a report published through Ukraine on Monday. media.
The attack destroyed 20 Shahed-136 kamikaze drones, 50 Lancet drones, attack drones, 40 ZALA reconnaissance drones, and 10 SuperCam reconnaissance drones. Satellite photographs reportedly showed the aftermath of the attack.
The Telegram channel’s spy archive said the attack hit administrative homes and adjacent homes used by Iranian instructors and Russian army personnel. The attack “hit a barracks used by Iranian flight instructors,” the Kyiv Post reported.
The surnames of the three murdered instructors are believed to be Gunya, Sadreev and Kazhanov. It is unclear if there were Iranians among the dead or the extent of the other casualties, the Astra Telegram channel reported that nine Russian servicemen were wounded.
Pro-Kremlin Russian military bloggers, adding Rybar Z, showed that the facility attacked, but said that incoming guns were shot down and reported no damage.
Spy Dossier published on Monday that the attack was carried out by two cruise missiles of unknown type, which were “probably ‘R-360’ Neptunes, a Ukrainian subsonic cruise missile.
Kyiv did not identify the weapons used in the attack, but the Kyiv Post reported that there was evidence that Neptune missiles or similar weapons were fired in the attack, which it described as one of the most effective Ukrainian counterattacks against Russian long-range attack systems. since the war began.
Newsweek has reached out to the defense ministries of Russia and Ukraine, as well as the Iranian Foreign Ministry, for comment.
On Tuesday night, Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) claimed responsibility for a drone attack on an ammunition depot in Russia’s Voronezh region, less than kilometers from its border.
Ukraine has stepped up its measures against Russian oil facilities used by Moscow’s forces on the battlefield. In the most recent attack, GUR said the warehouse fire covered about 3,500 meters and shared a video showing smoke rising.
Brendan Cole is a senior reporter for Newsweek in London, UK. It focuses on Russia and Ukraine, specifically on the war unleashed through Moscow. It also covers other areas of geopolitics, adding China.
Brendan joined Newsweek in 2018 from International Business Times and, in addition to English, studies Russian and French.
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