The explosion of a drone causes the fire of an oil tank, although it does not cause any casualties
A drone strike has caused a fire at an airport in the Russian city of Kursk, near the border with Ukraine, but without causing any casualties. According to the governor of the region, Roman Starovoit, an oil tank has caught fire. Intelligence agencies are already investigating what happened. The attack comes just hours after explosions were recorded at two other Russian airbases hundreds of miles from the front. The Kremlin accused Kiev of being behind the attack.
All three incidents raise questions about Ukraine’s military strategy. Western arms supplies were conditional on Ukraine using the weapons within its national territory. Therefore, no long-range weapons were sent. No one can know how far the war would escalate if Kiev took the war to the heart of Russia. But now it appears that Ukraine, which has not claimed responsibility for the attacks, has gone off on its own feet.
Ukroboronprom, the Ukrainian state-owned weapons manufacturer, said in October it was “finalizing development” of a drone with a 75 kg warhead and a range of nearly 1,000 km, and said on Sunday it had completed testing of the weapon. Only a day later, the Russian airbases were hit. A third airport was hit this Tuesday.
While the drones were deployed in Ukraine and flew low to Russia to avoid detection, analysts said it was necessary to have a team on the ground to direct the drones. Russian military blogs critical of the Kremlin also accuse Moscow of failing to prevent the bombings and assume Ukrainian units operate from Russian territory, showing that Russia is also vulnerable.
A former US diplomat and military analyst, Max Bergmann, confirms in the New York Times newspaper that this strategy of hitting Russian national territory has a meaning beyond showing military strength. According to him, “it also sends a signal to Russia that continuing the war is not free, that not only Ukraine is vulnerable to attack by drones and long-range missiles; So is Russia.” “This is useful for Kiev, because when or if the two countries ever sit down at a negotiating table, “the commitment to stop attacks on Russian soil is now a valuable asset that Ukraine has to offer.”
A mysterious drone strike in October destroyed several Russian ships docked at the Sevastopol base, nearly derailing the grain export deal. And months earlier, in August, another attack destroyed several planes at Saki airbase in Crimea.
Source: La Verdad
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