Ukrainian strikes wipe out 6,000 of Russian FPV drones, General Staff says
Ukraine’s Defense Forces carried out strikes on a number of Russian military facilities. (Photo: General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces)
Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck Russian ammunition and drone
storage facilities and an enemy command post, destroying about 6,000 FPV
drones, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said on Feb. 9.
According to the General Staff, Ukrainian forces overnight
hit a command post of a Russian airborne unit near the city of Sudzha in
Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
Ukrainian troops also struck a Russian ammunition depot near
the temporarily occupied settlement of Novooleksiivka in Kherson Oblast.
As a result of earlier strikes, the General Staff confirmed
the destruction of three containers holding FPV drones and components at a UAV
storage facility near the city of Rostov-on-Don in Russia’s Rostov Oblast.
The General Staff said about 6,000 FPV drones were
destroyed, with several additional containers holding unmanned aerial vehicles
damaged.
On Feb. 8, the General Staff confirmed damage at the
Kapustin Yar missile test range in Russia’s Astrakhan Oblast, from which
Russian forces had previously launched Oreshnik missiles at Ukraine.
On Feb. 7, the General Staff said units of Ukraine’s Defense
Forces struck an oil depot in Balashov, in Russia’s Saratov Oblast, and an
enemy drone command post in a temporarily occupied area of Zaporizhzhya Oblast.
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