Ukrainian UAVs attack secret Russian military facilities

(Dan Tri) - Ukraine's most recent drone attacks have targeted targets across Russia. Kiev claims they are all secret military facilities.

An explosion in Russia caused by a Ukrainian UAV attack (Photo: Telegram).

Russian military facilities have long been a major target for Ukrainian drone and missile attacks. After restrictions on the use of Western weapons were eased, Ukraine expanded the scope of these attacks to target Russian facilities involved in air strikes in Ukraine, such as UAV factories.

The recent large-scale attack targeted at least three industrial facilities. If Ukraine’s claims that the facilities functioned as secret support centers for the Russian military are true, the attack could have caused significant damage to Moscow.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on January 10 that in the recent attack, they intercepted and destroyed a total of 40 Ukrainian UAVs in the skies over Rostov, Kursk, Voronezh, Bryansk, Krasnodar, Belgorod and the Sea of ​​Azov.

The UAV attack caused a fire at an industrial zone in the town of Gatchina in the Leningrad region, the independent news channel Astra reported.

According to the state news agency TASS , an acetone production facility caught fire during the attack. The Russian Emergencies Ministry later announced that the fire had been extinguished. Rostov Governor Yury Slyusar also confirmed this information.

Astra , citing local authorities, said the explosions caused toxic chemicals to spill out of the plant but there were no casualties. However, the news channel said the Ukrainian target may have been a motor transport company located near the site of the fire.

Another fire also broke out in Chaltyr, located in the Rostov region, during the recent attack. Ukrainian officials said the target of the attack was the Chaltyr brick factory.

On Telegram, Mr. Andriy Kovalenko, director of the Center for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, said that the recent attack targeted "camouflaged military facilities".

“Russia has disguised military factories as normal ones, trying to hide their real production activities,” he wrote.

According to local authorities, the fires caused by the attack have been extinguished. Rostov region governor Yury Slyusar confirmed that there were no casualties in the raid, but information is still being gathered.

In another development, according to Russian media, early this morning, January 11, Ukrainian UAVs attacked two buildings in the city of Kotovsk, about 430km southeast of Moscow.

Witnesses heard several loud explosions, including another after a UAV crashed into the building. Telegram news channel Mash reported at least five people were injured in Kotovsk.

Meanwhile, more than 15 UAVs were shot down in the southwestern Voronezh region. Another attack hit Anapa, a tourist town on the Black Sea coast, opposite Crimea.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/the-gioi/uav-ukraine-tan-cong-cac-co-so-quan-su-bi-mat-cua-nga-20250111151433810.htm