These attacks are not just larger and more frequent; They are also more concentrated and are performed in such a way that it is much more difficult to fight with them, since they are performed at high altitudes, out of reach of machine guns, the publication says.
The increase in the number of drones that Russia now uses against Ukraine is stunning, notes CNN. So, only over the past four weeks, seven largest attacks have occurred using drones. At least 154 Ukrainian civilians, including children, were killed by drones, Russian missile strikes and artillery throughout the country over the past four weeks. Another 900 civilians were injured.
The analyst in Russia at the Institute for the Study of the War, Christina Harvard, said that, according to current estimates, Moscow could now produce about 2.7 thousand unmanned vehicles such as Shaheda per month, as well as about 2.5 thousand drumen drones. This allows the Russian Federation to run more than 300 or even 400 drones more often in just one night, she said. At the same time, the baits are modified in such a way that it is very difficult to distinguish them from the present, and this loads the air defense system of Ukraine.
Russia also began to concentrate the directions of its attacks. On Monday evening, she aimed at the Ukrainian capital and the Black Sea port city of Odessa. The next night it was Kharkov, the second largest city in Ukraine.
“Instead of imprisoning here and there, they concentrate strokes and are able to achieve the maximum effect of both kinetic and psychological,” the former official of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine told CNN, and now the summaker of the Melnik Melnik program in the center of Razumkov in Kyiv.
The fighter of the Ukrainian PPO Yuri Chumak told the television channel, in recent weeks the sky has become much more loaded. In addition, earlier the Russians launched drones at low altitude, for example, along the river bed so as not to be discovered for as long as possible Ukrainian air defense. Now, according to Chumak, Russian drones fly at an altitude of two to five kilometers above the ground. They can be seen, radars can track them, but it became impossible to knock them out of machine guns – for this you have to use missiles, the number of which is limited.
