The Ukrainian Air Force Command reported that Russia has reduced the number of missile attacks on Ukraine in recent days, but has increased the use of drones in Ukrainian airspace.
“Russian forces are now saving up expensive cruise missiles and using them less. Instead, they tend to attack more with Use kamikaze (suicide) drones, Russia received from Iran.
“Ukraine’s defense forces are learning how to effectively deal with drones,” Ihnat adds.
And an Air Force spokesman believes Russia may have received “hundreds of attack drones from Iran by four IL-76 tankers.”
Ihnat said: “Ukraine’s armed forces faced a new challenge. In recent days, Kharkiv region, Odessa region and Mykolaiv region were attacked by these gatherings.”
He explains that “to shoot down the processions, (…) small arms, machine guns, anti-aircraft and anti-aircraft missiles are used, and in the foreseeable future electronic warfare techniques may be used.”
He pointed out: Currently, all methods are being investigated so that they can be practiced more effectively on these drones.
He emphasized: 8 of the 10 UAVs launched by Russia were shot down, and the enemy is learning from its mistakes and using new tactical moves, but we are also practicing countermeasures, there is still a threat, but the target is lost. can be overthrown “
Ukraine confirmed on Sunday that the coastal city of Odessa was attacked overnight by Iranian-made drones, two days after Russia carried out a similar drone strike that killed two civilians.
The military command of Ukraine in the south of the country announced that “Odessa was attacked by suicide drones again”.
He added: The enemy targeted the office building in the center of the city three times.
And he continued: Air defense (Ukraine) shot down a drone. No casualties were reported.
Natalya Gomnik, spokeswoman for Ukraine’s military command in the south, confirmed to AFP that the attack was carried out by “Iranian drones”.
The attacks came two days after two civilians were killed in Odessa on Friday in a Russian strike by an Iranian-made drone.
According to the Ukrainian armed forces, four Iranian-made drones were shot down in the south of the country on Friday.
Kyiv later announced that it had decided to reduce Iran’s diplomatic presence in Ukraine due to the supply of drones to Russia.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine announced: In response to such a hostile action, the Ukrainian side decided to revoke the credentials of the Iranian ambassador to Ukraine and to significantly reduce the number of diplomatic staff of the Iranian embassy in Kyiv.
A foreign ministry official told AFP that the move amounted to an expulsion because the ambassador was not in Ukraine and therefore could not be expelled.
Source: Lebanon Debate
