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Kiev forces launched a series of attacks with suicide drones against Russian territory on August 20, causing a number of casualties.
In the early morning hours, a Ukrainian drone crashed into the rooftop of a railway station in the city of Kursk, injuring five people and setting off a fire, according to the governor of the Kursk region Roman Starovoit.
“Ukrainian drone attack in Kursk. According to preliminary information, it crashed into the roof of the railway station building, setting off a fire on the rooftop. Five people were slightly injured by shards of glass,” the governor said on his Telegram channel.
The details of the drone attack are being verified, according to the Starovoit, Videos that surfaced on social media showed a fire and smoke rising from Kursk train station.
A few hours later, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that Ukraine attempted to attack the area in and around Moscow with a drone.
“An attempt of the Kiev regime to make a terrorist attack with a fixed-wing drone on facilities on the territory of Moscow and the Moscow Region was stopped at 4 am on August 20,” the ministry said in a statement.
Russian air defenses detected the drone when it flew over the Stupino District just outside Moscow, according to the ministry.
“The UAV was suppressed with electronic warfare means and went out of control, crashing in an unpopulated area. No casualties and damage have been reported,” the ministry added.
Later in the day, Vasily Golubev, governor of the Rostov region, announced that a Ukrainian drone attack was thwarted by Russian electronic warfare means.
According to the governor, two drones crashed on the territory of a military unit in Kamensk, another drone was downed one kilometer to the north of Novoshakhtinsk, there were no reported casualties or damage as a result of the attack.
“Early this morning, there was an attempted terrorist attack with the use of kamikaze drones in our region,” Golubev said. “The drones were successfully engaged by electronic warfare systems. No Air Defense weapons were used due to the small size of the targets.”.
The attacks came following reports of heavy Ukrainian losses in different directions within the special military operation zone.
A spokesman for the Russian Zapad Group of Forces told TASS that the group captured a Ukrainian strongpoint, four dugouts and killed more than 40 troops during an offensive in the Kupyansk direction.
“In the course of combat operations in the Kupyansk area, the assault units of the battlegroup West continued the offensive in the direction of the Olshana settlement. They captured a strongpoint, four dugouts with personnel and took out more than 40 enemy soldiers,” the spokesman, Yaroslav Yakimkin, said.
According to the spokesman, during the same day, the enemy units of the 14th and 115th Separate Mechanized Brigades and the 95th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade conducted five counter attacks on the positions of Russian troops, using armored vehicles.
“All counter attacks were successfully repulsed, and the enemy’s losses from artillery and mortar fire amounted to up to a platoon of personnel and one infantry fighting vehicle,” Yakimkin added.
In addition, the Zapad Group of Forces destroyed an ammunition supply point of a Ukrainian mortar unit near Kupyansk.
“In the course of counterbattery warfare, a Krab self-propelled artillery unit was destroyed in the area of Kupyansk. Also destroyed were a mortar unit near Stelmakhovka and a mortar unit’s ammunition supply point near Kamenka,” Yakimkin said.
The spokesman added that assault groups of the 25th separate airborne brigade launched two attacks on the positions of Russian troops close to Novosyolovskoye.
“The enemy was detected in a timely manner. By inflicting preemptive fire damage with the battlegroup’s artillery and army aviation, the attacks were thwarted. More than 20 Ukrainian servicemen were taken out,” the spokesman said.
Meanwhile in the Donetsk direction, another large-scale Ukrainian attack was repelled by the Russian military near Bakhmut. Video footage from the battle was shared by Russian news sources. The footage shows the destruction of several Ukrainian combat vehicles.
Eleven weeks into their counteroffensive, Kiev forces are yet to reach the Russian military’s first line of defense in any direction. Despite this failure, the counteroffensive will likely continue during autumn as the Kiev regime is left without any other options.
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air defense is not sufficient if enemy attack units – even small ones like drones – can enter the territory and fly for an hour or more before first detection. if the ukrainian side really would have wanted to make simple terror attacks on civilian properties, they would have had plenty of time and opportunities to do so.
what can be concluded from those circumstances? well: the talk about “terror attacks” is mere propaganda and should be abandoned. that applies to both sides of the conflict, of course.
unfortunately, there is no possibility to argue against the ukrainian propaganda, since every attempt to do so gets under fire of all propaganda weapons of the west. but that should not deter the russians from abandoning their propaganda.