Analysis: Widely shared footage of drone attacks shows attempt to bring conflict closer to Russian people
For the second time in less than a month, Russia’s naval base at Sevastopol
. Plumes of smoke were seen rising after the incident on Saturday morning, which the Russian-appointed governor of the city, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said came after a drone flew over the sensitive military site.appears to back that up. But a key question is how a drone was able to evade Russian electronic warfare defences and fly right over the naval base.and the drone may have been shot down before delivering a payload. Razvozhaev said initially the drone had not been hit, before saying it was.
Experts such as Justin Bronk from the Royal United Services Institute thinktank suggest the drone in the film could have been a commercially available Chinese-made model,, or a copy of it. It has a flying time of up to seven hours, the manufacturers say, and a top speed of 150 km/h and could have been adapted to carry an improvised warhead. The payload, the manufacturers say, is 15 to 20 kilograms.
The drone may also have been simply engaged in reconnaissance, although the growing evidence of a pattern of drone strikes deep behind the frontline in Crimea and elsewhere suggests something different. Russia said the same naval base was hit by a drone strikeA video, originally , showed a similar-looking aircraft being used in a kamikaze strike on an oil refinery at Novoshakhtinsk, inside Russian territory near Rostov, just across the border from occupied Donetsk. The similarity is unlikely to be a coincidence.Archie Bland and Nimo Omer take you through the top stories and what they mean, free every weekday morningNewsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties.
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