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☆ Russia's navy could be open to a sea-drone attack after a huge storm
  + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A big storm over occupied Crimea damaged Russia's naval defenses there, a report said. Satellite images showed damage to booms and barges meant to defend from sea drones. AdvertisementSevastopol is Russia's main naval base in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula it has occupied since 2014. UK intelligence officials also said last month that Russia had moved some naval operations away from Crimea as Ukraine continued its attacks. AdvertisementUkraine has also been using sea drones to target the fleet, including an attack earlier this month which Ukraine said hit two Russian vessels.
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☆ Donetsk: Ukraine launches 'most massive strike' on occupied region since 2014, Russia-installed mayor says
  + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Olga Voitovych Anna Chernova Zahid Mahmood Josh Pennington Sana Noor Haq | Olga Voitovych | Anna Chernova | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
“At exactly 7 a.m. the (Ukrainians) subjected the center of Donetsk (city) to the most massive strike since 2014,” the Moscow-appointed mayor, Aleksey Kulemzin, posted on Telegram. “Forty rockets from BM-21 ‘Grad’ MLRS were fired at civilians in our city,” he said Thursday, adding that a key intersection in Donetsk city center had come under fire. A firefighter works inside a destroyed apartment of a residential building hit by shelling in Donetsk on December 15. Men insert wooden boards in the window of a bank next to the building of the State Administration of Kherson after a rocket attack in Kherson city on Wednesday. “And these realities indicate that the Russian Federation has new subjects,” he said, referring to four areas Russia has claimed to have annexed, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia.
☆ Russian soldiers in Kharkiv region couldn’t immediately launch drones during Ukrainian counter-offensive because of a software installation
  + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The drones are frequently used by Russia as they are low-cost, short-distance, rechargeable drones meant to launch small weapons. They're also used in part to offset the high costs of explosive, hi-tech surveillance drones like the Iranian kamikaze drones, according to the New York Times. According to Reuters, the next day, the forces received four Mavic-3 quadcopter drones, but they couldn't be used immediately as needed. The soldiers, while under missile fire, had to install new software for the drones, and then train 15 soldiers on how to use them. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that within days of the September counteroffensive, Ukraine regained over 1,158 square miles of territory from Russian forces.
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