This week, drones helped the Ukrainian military attack a Russian military training facility in the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya Oblast in southern Ukraine.
When Ukrainian drones spotted the Russian troops, they were attacked with 660-pound rockets loaded with hundreds of grenade-sized submunitions.
Ukraine’s Southern Defense Forces said in a statement on Facebook that about 24 soldiers were in the area at the time of the Oct. 15 attack, without disclosing the number of casualties.
They also tagged drone footage of the first explosion at the facility, followed by several more explosions in the area.
According to reports, there have been about seven attacks on Russian trainees across the 700-mile front since February.
GMLRS cluster munitions cover piles of Russian infantry at another training range in the south.
Coordination was carried out by operators from the 128th Independent Mechanized Brigade and the Black Forest Brigade using Shark reconnaissance UAVs. pic.twitter.com/YYZvGegr5u
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Ukraine claims to have killed around 670,000 Russian soldiers since the start of the war in 2022. The Ukrainian Armed Forces announced on Saturday that it had destroyed 144 Russian artillery brigades worth $8 billion this year.
Earlier today, regional officials announced that Ukraine launched a series of drones targeting Moscow and western Russia.
The mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobyanin, said Russian air defense forces had destroyed at least one drone flying toward Moscow.
According to preliminary information, there was no damage or casualties caused by falling debris in the Ramensky district of the Moscow region.
The region’s governor said debris from the drone caused several short fires in the Lipetsk region of southwestern Russia. No injuries were reported, it added.
The governors of Bryansk and Oryol oblasts, also in western Russia, reported that air defense forces had destroyed several drones there.
Ukraine has often said the airstrikes target infrastructure key to Russia’s war effort and are a response to continued Russian air attacks.
Meanwhile, Russian authorities often do not reveal the full extent of the damage caused by drone attacks, particularly to military, transportation, and energy infrastructure.
(With input from agency)
