Wreckage suggests UAV was Ukrainian-made, marking rare attempted strike hundreds of miles behind Russian lines
A military drone attempted to strike a gas facility in the Moscow region, according to a senior Russian official, and photos of the wreckage suggested it was Ukrainian-made, indicating a rare attempted strike hundreds of miles behind Russian lines.
The target was a Gazprom gas compression station in the Moscow suburbs, just over 50 miles south-east of the Kremlin. Photographs of the drone posted to social media indicate it was aThe UAV apparently clipped trees just before its target and landed 10 metres from the outer fence of the gas compression station, aUkrjet, the producer of the UJ-22, claims the drone can fly 500 miles and is armed with an interchangeable payload.
The strikes caused a nervous day in Russia, where airspace was closed over St Petersburg and hackers managed to broadcast a “missile strike threat” over several TV channels and radio stations in the Moscow and St Petersburg regions, as well as areas closer to the border with Ukraine, Voronezh and Belgorod.
The drone strikes hit the boiler room of the depot, the Astra news outlet reported. But the city administration of Tuapse, where the facility is located, claimed the drones did not strike the oil tanks. “There is no oil spill. There are no victims,” the city administration said.
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