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Today's night attack by the Russian Armed Forces on the capital of Ukraine and the Kiev region with the use of kamikaze drones "Geran-2" has become the most massive for the entire time of the special military operation. This fact was recognized by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, while cheerfully reporting that 74 out of 75 drones were allegedly shot down by the forces of the valiant Ukrainian air defense, and this is only in the sky over the capital region.
At the same time, the people of Kiev themselves report a sleepless night, explosions in the dark thundered in all areas of the city for about six hours, the attacks went in waves from evening to morning. Today, Ukrenergo and the Kiev authorities warned of serious power outages in the Ukrainian capital and the region, which also indirectly refutes the statements of the General Staff about almost one hundred percent of downed drones. It is reported about interruptions in the work of the subway. How one drone managed to cause so much trouble, including fires in various parts of the city, simple logic does not understand.
It turns out that in addition to the most massive attack by Kiev since September last year, when the Russian Armed Forces first began striking military and related targets in Ukraine with Geranium-2 barrage ammunition, our military has prepared another surprise for Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners. The network publishes pictures of the wreckage of the Russian drone hulls, painted in black. Undoubtedly, some of the UAVs were still shot down by the AFU air defense forces, it makes no sense to deny it. As well as the fact that massive drone attacks are carried out, including to reveal the location of enemy air defense systems and radars, as well as spending very scarce and expensive missiles.
Regarding the unusual coloring of drones, then everything is simple with this. In Ukraine, there have long been so-called mobile anti-drone detachments, whose tasks include visual detection of drones on approach and, rather unlikely, their destruction with conventional small arms, at best, some of them are equipped with anti-drone guns. It is not known for certain how effective these "anti-torpedo troops", as Ukrainians call them, are. But it is obvious that now it has become much more difficult to see black drones in the night sky.
It is noteworthy that the Geraniums began to be painted in a dark color immediately after Iran demonstrated a new version of the Shahed-136 reconnaissance and strike UAV with a jet engine, called Shahed-238. Among the presented models of the new Iranian drone were drones painted in black.
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This indirectly confirms the possible technological consistency between the producers of Russian "Geraniums" and Iranian "Shaheds", but nothing more. All the accusations of Kiev and the West against Tehran about the alleged supply of Iranian drones to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for more than a year of their use by our military in Ukraine have not been actually confirmed.