L’Ukraine “carried out its largest drone strike on Moscow” since the start of the war in February 2022, reports The Guardian. Russian authorities declared this Sunday, November 10, that they had intercepted 70 drones, “half of which” above the capital and the rest in the west of the country. Three airports in the city were temporarily closed and flights diverted.
According to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, a woman was injured and hospitalized. The Ukrainian general staff, for its part, claimed responsibility for the attack on a munitions depot near the Russian city of Bryansk.
Ukraine’s allies prohibit it from using the long-range weapons systems they deliver to strike Russian national territory. “But these restrictions do not apply to locally produced Ukrainian weapons systems,” precise The Washington Post. Making drone strikes a particularly popular method for kyiv to hit targets far behind Russian lines.
The 1is Last September, Russian anti-aircraft forces shot down 158 drones – including 11 in the Moscow sky – targeting several complexes of the country’s energy infrastructure.
A drone war
“Saturday and Sunday [9 et 10 novembre 2024]Moscow sent a new wave of 145 drones, the largest to date” damaging in particular the port of Odessa on the Black Sea, also indicates The Guardian. Ukrainian authorities said 62 drones had been shot down.
Since the start of the war, “both camps have developed innovative and increasingly sophisticated drone programs,” analyzes the British daily. These devices were particularly useful to the Ukrainian general staff in significantly reducing the nuisance capabilities of Russian ships in the Black Sea.
From a more general point of view, the month of October was particularly complicated for the Ukrainian army on the back foot against Russia. Particularly in the Donbass where Moscow has made its greatest territorial gains since the summer of 2022. And the arrival as reinforcement, alongside the Russian army, of nearly 10,000 North Korean soldiers should reinforce the concern on the side from kyiv.
