According to journalists, the wreckage of the UAV indicates that it is a Ukrainian UJ-22 Airborne. The impact drone is capable of flying 800 km with a payload of up to 20 kg.
Journalists called the explosions on February 28 in the Kolomensky district of the Moscow region a rare attempt to strike hundreds of kilometers from Russian positions. Presumably, the target of the drone strike was the Gazprom facility, next to which fragments of the device were later found. It is reported by The Guardian.
Judging by the wreckage, this is a Ukrainian UJ-22 Airborne UAV manufactured by Ukrjet, which claims that the strike drone is capable of flying 800 km with a payload of up to 20 kg.
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The drone landed 10 meters from the fence of the Gazprom compression station, representatives of the Russian state-owned company said.
According to journalists, of all the recent drone attacks in the Russian Federation, at least one UAV hit the target – the oil depot of the Rosneft company in Tuapse (Krasnodar Territory). The city is located almost 500 km from the Ukrainian border.
After the leaders of the Russian regions confirmed the airstrikes, the airspace over St. Petersburg was closed. The Russian government, however, said that this was done as part of an exercise to detect unmanned aircraft.
Dozens of flights were canceled, and flights and landings at Pulkovo Airport were banned.
Recall that a full video of the UAV approaching the Russian AWACS A-50 aircraft appeared on the Web. Surveillance cameras recorded the drone, which freely flew into the airfield and landed on the radar antenna.
Earlier, Focus reported that drones destroyed 6 tanks of the Russian Armed Forces in one night. Two groups of SBU special forces demonstrated high accuracy when dropping grenades on military equipment of the Russian Federation.
