The drones ceded by Turkey to kyiv manage to overcome anti-aircraft defenses and destroy arsenals and fuel depots
A military arsenal next to the town of Staraya Nelidovka, located about twenty kilometers from the border with Ukraine, in the Russian region of Belgorod, was the target of a drone attack from enemy territory this Wednesday morning, the governor of Ukraine announced. the region, Viacheslav Gladkov, who assured that there were four explosions. The weapons depot suffered a strong fire and was almost totally destroyed. Gladkov said no casualties were reported and the fire did not spread to nearby buildings. Another large fire affected a fuel depot on Monday in the Bryansk area, also on the border. There were also no casualties.
Also in the early hours of this Wednesday, in the nearby Russian regions of Kursk and Voronezh, also neighbors of Ukraine, the authorities declared that the explosions in the sky recorded with telephones by numerous users of social networks were anti-aircraft defense rockets fired at Ukrainian drones.
The governors of Kursk, Román Starovoit, and Voronezh, Alexánder Gúsev, called on the population for calm, since, according to their words, the interception work of the Turkish-made unmanned devices used by the kyiv Army “was all a success”, since, according to his account, they did not cause destruction or victims.
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“Preliminary information was confirmed: a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was intercepted in the sky over the Kursk region. The calculations of our air defense did not fail. They responded quickly and efficiently. No one was injured, there was no damage,” Starovoit said on its Telegram channel on Wednesday. On Monday he also reported that “the anti-aircraft defense shot down two Ukrainian drones in the Rilsk district.”
Officials from the Belgorod and Briansk regions have several times denounced bombings allegedly launched from enemy territory, which has led to the declaration of a “yellow level of terrorist threat” in all surrounding provinces. Gladkov said on Monday that a village “was the target of gunfire” and that there were “injured civilians.”
The advisor to the Ukrainian Presidency, Mijailo Podoliak, referring to what is happening in Kursk, Voronezh, Belgorod and Briansk, said on Wednesday that “if it is decided to attack another country massively, sooner or later the debts will have to be paid. Now these regions understand what the concept of demilitarization means, since their ammunition stores and fuel depots are exploding », although he did not recognize that Ukraine is behind it.
On April 1, Gladkov already warned that “two Ukrainian helicopters fired several missiles at a fuel depot at dawn” in the city of Belgorod, causing a gigantic fire. Social networks published videos of the moment in which the devices fired the projectiles, which caused general surprise as it was inexplicable that they could penetrate fifty kilometers into Russian territory without being detected or shot down.
State of emergency
Belgorod authorities have previously accused Ukrainian troops of shelling the area. On March 23, in the villages of Zhuravlyovka and Nekhotevka, right on the border, a state of emergency was declared after a shell explosion.
The next day Russia claimed that the explosions were repeated and that as a result, one person was killed and three were injured. Then, on March 29, an arsenal was blown up, although Moscow officially admitted that the cause of the explosions was “non-compliance with safety regulations”.
Separatists from the self-proclaimed republic of Transnistria, in Moldova, also blame Ukraine for being responsible for the attacks of the last three days. The Ministry of the Interior of this pro-Russian secessionist enclave asserted this Wednesday that on Tuesday night “several drones were detected” and, hours later, “shots were fired from the Ukrainian side in the direction of Kolbasnoe, where there is a weapons warehouse. According to experts, it is the largest ammunition depot in Europe. They remained there after the withdrawal of the Soviet Army» and it is only two kilometers from the border.
According to the Foreign Minister of Transnistria, Vitali Ignatiev, “the explosions of the last few days were not random.” “These are terrorist acts and the clues lead to Ukraine,” he said. But Volodymyr Zelensky believes that Russia is trying to “destabilize” Transnistria to open a new front in its war and warned that his army “is prepared for a possible intervention by Russian troops in Moldova.”
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