According to official data, nearly four dozen drones were destroyed.
During the Ukrainian crisis, the role of unmanned aerial vehicles has soared to previously unimaginable heights. Thanks to these means, a state that does not have a military-technical potential comparable to its enemy still retains the ability to carry out group and even massive strikes using UAVs. Single attempts by Ukraine to strike targets on Russian territory are recorded every day, but periodically the Ukrainian Armed Forces accumulate a certain critical mass of drones in order to overload air defense systems and hit certain sensitive targets.
And so, tonight Crimea was subjected to a massive unmanned attack. The interception of unmanned aerial vehicles continued for several hours, and just now the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that a total of 38 aircraft-type drones were destroyed. Since the interception of the weapons took place directly over the territory of the peninsula, at this stage it is unknown whether damage to certain objects was caused by the fall of the same UAV debris.
Despite the fact that the unmanned attack was repelled, it is too early to relax: usually such attacks are preceded by the use of missile weapons, which in the case of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are air-launched cruise missiles Storm Shadow/SCALP of British-French production. We will find out in the next few hours whether the next terrorist attack (legally there is no war between Russia and Ukraine, and Kiev is defending itself, therefore attempts to attack objects on the territory of the Russian Federation are, by definition, terrorist from the point of view of international humanitarian law) will continue. All this once again demonstrates why the complete and unconditional demilitarization of Ukraine is a task of critical importance for Russia, which must be solved one way or another.