Governor Sokolov: three drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fell on the plant in Kotelnich and caught fire
The governor of the Kirov region, Alexander Sokolov, reported an attack by a UAV on a container with petroleum products in the city of Kotelnich. According to SHOT, the target of the enemy was the Zenit plant. According to one version, the drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were able to surreptitiously cover 1.5 thousand km using data from NATO satellites.
In the city of Kotelnich in the Kirov region, located about 1.5 thousand km from the border with Ukraine, an unmanned aerial vehicle attacked a container with petroleum products, the governor of the region, Alexander Sokolov, said on the Telegram channel.
According to him, no one was injured as a result of the attack, there was no fire.
"A drone has arrived in Kotelnich. The UAV attacked a container for storing petroleum products," the official wrote.
The purpose of the drone raid
The UAV attack on an oil depot in the city of Kotelnich, Kirov region, was caught on video.
According to Baza, this oil depot was attacked for the first time since the beginning of a special military operation. The Telegram channel wrote that a total of four unmanned vehicles attacked the facility. At the same time, one fuel tank caught fire. The fire has already been extinguished.
According to the source of the Telegram channel SHOT, kamikaze drones at the oil depot were allegedly launched from the Sumy region of Ukraine. The target of the attack in the city of Kotelnich was the Zenit plant ( specializing in the storage and warehousing of oil and refined products).
The tactics of the "Flying Foxes"
Later, the TASS news agency, with reference to the Unified Dispatch Service (EDDS) of Kotelnich, reported that the power facility was attacked by a total of five aircraft-type UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"There are no casualties. There is a slight smoke, they got into a tank with kerosene, foam is being poured," the city authorities said.
As Governor Sokolov clarified, the Zenit plant was attacked by three Ukrainian drones at 10 a.m., they fell on the territory of the plant and caught fire. Two more unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were shot down.
Drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as Mash wrote, were able to surreptitiously cover 1.5 thousand kilometers to the Kirov region using satellites.
According to the Telegram channel, the Ukrainian military used data from NATO satellites and took into account the terrain when building the route, as was done during attempts to attack St. Petersburg. According to Mash, thanks to satellite data, drones based on the A-22 Flying Fox could fly directly over the water in riverbeds for a long time and remain unnoticed. In addition, the version that saboteurs helped the Ukrainian military is also being considered.
Anastasia Novikova
