Ukrainian soldiers in mobile air defense units have been training at a secret location in northern Ukraine as Russia continues to bomb the country with hundreds of drone strikes.
Over the past two months, Russia has launched more than 800 drones to bomb Ukraine, including the largest attack on Kiev since the start of the war on Saturday, according to Ukraine’s Air Force and Defense Intelligence.
Military officials said Moscow is retaining its stockpile of 870 ballistic and cruise missiles for its main strikes against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, planning to repeat tactics from last winter.
At an undisclosed location in the country’s north, Ukrainian instructors pilot dummy drones made to imitate the Iranian-made Shahed drone used by Russia, while soldiers man machine guns and decades-old anti-aircraft cannons mounted on pickup trucks pointed at the sky. weapons, ABC News reported.
“Everything we have, every help we receive, we use to create mobile fire groups to fill every inch of space here,” Lt. Gen. Serhiy Nayev, who oversees the defense of Ukraine’s northern border, told the outlet.
Ukrainian soldiers of mobile military air defense units have been training at a secret location in northern Ukraine. Andriy Andriyenko/SOPA Images/Shutterstock
In the last two months, Russia launched more than 800 drones to bomb Ukraine. Andriy Andriyenko/SOPA Images/Shutterstock
In one test, soldiers fired thousands of bullets from anti-aircraft weapons at a small drone, which suffered minimal damage; In a real-life fight, Ukrainian forces would have had to use expensive Western air defense systems (a last option) to eliminate the weapon, the outlet reported.
Nayev said that despite training hundreds of mobile air defense teams to prepare for Russia’s airstrike, the technology is “critical” to Ukraine’s defenses.
“The goal for which, according to old Soviet-style technologies, it was necessary to spend 100 shells, with the help of Western technologies much less is needed, and it is measured in numbers up to 10, so the technology always exceeds the number,” Nayev told ABC News.
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