At Least 145 Russian Drones Pounded Ukrainian RearSouth Front

Illustrative Image

On November 10th, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted one of the most massive drone attacks on the capital of the Russian Federation. Dozens of Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed on their way to Moscow and in other Russian regions. The puppet Kiev regime launched another attempt to escalate the conflict amid the ongoing reports about the upcoming negotiations. The attack failed and Kiev got the opposite result. The Russian military did not waste time and pounded Ukrainian rear regions with drones and missiles.

One of the most massive Russian attacks targeted Ukrainian rear infrastructure on the night of November 10th. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian military attacked Ukraine with at least 145 UAVs. They included the Geran-type kamikaze UAVs and other unidentified drones. The air defense forces of Ukraine failed to intercept more than a half of them.

According to the morning report by the Ukrainian General Staff, the attack began at around 8 p.m. on Saturday evening and ended at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday. The strikes were launched in several waves from four different directions.

During the night, Ukrainian forces managed to shoot down only 62 Russian drones. The Ukrainian military is using sophisticated phrases to hide its defeats. Thus, 67 more Russian drones were allegedly “locally lost”, 10 more drones allegedly flew back towards Moldova and Belarus and left the airspace of Ukraine.

In fact, the air defense forces of Ukraine suffered another defeat and proved their ineffectiveness despite the multi billion aid from NATO and supply of numerous advanced Western air defense systems.

At night, a series of explosions thundered in the Kiev, Odessa, Rivne, Kharkiv, Sumy, Zhitomir, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv regions, as well as in Mirgorod and Starokonstantinov. Some targets of Russian strikes were immediately revealed. More detailed results of the night attack are yet to be revealed.

The Ukrainian military was forced to admit some heavy damage as a result of Russian strikes in the southern Odessa region. As always, Kiev blamed the Russian military for the alleged attack on civilian facilities, while Russian drones and missiles destroy military facilities and the local port infrastructure used by the Ukrainian army and the NATO military for transfer of Western military equipment to the war-torn country.

Another video from Odessa shows the local resident filming the strikes. The man is definately not afraid that Russian missiles are targeting his house and he goes to his balcony to film the strikes. The locals are well aware that Russian strikes destroy military targets.

According to preliminary reports by Ukrainian military observers, Odessa was target by about a dozen Geran UAVs, which approached the city from the southern direction. Some of them struck the port infrastructure, the others targeted facilities in the industrial zone of the city, where the Ukrainian military is storing weapons and military equipment from NATO.

Another wave of strikes destroyed targets in the eastern city of Kharkiv, where large Ukrainian forces are accumulated.

According to local reports, the air defense forces of Ukraine are prohibited to waste scarce anti-aircraft missiles to destroy Russian kamikaze UAVs that fly at low altitude. The Ukrainian military is forced to use special mobile groups on vehicles with machine guns and Gepard ADS to strike on the drones at close range. As a result, the effectiveness of Ukrainian air defense is extremely low.

Judging by the previous years of the war, the Russian military intends to weaken the Ukrainian air defense with constant massive strikes by Geran kamikaze drones and cheaper decoy drones. In late autumn and early winter, Russian troops usually intensify their crushing attacks with cruise missiles.