UKRAINE has conducted its deepest ever drone strike into enemy territory Russia, flying a kamikaze drone more than 1,120 miles inside Russia.
Kyiv’s kit buzzed Vladimir Putin’s cliff-top £1 billion Black Sea palace, sparking explosions in two nearby villages.
Dzhanhot, close to the sprawling Gelendzhik Palace and Krinitsa – which could also belong to the dictator – were hit.
The explosions landed just seven and four miles respectively from the heavily guarded palace.
It showed an impressive new milestone by Ukraine – marking the furthest an unmanned attack aircraft has been flown during the war.
The result also showed a serious weakness in Russia’s air defences – in a humiliating result for the tyrant.
One of the drones was reportedly aiming for a nuclear early warning radar station in Orsk, the Orenburg region.
Another Voronezh M long-range nuclear missile radar station in Krasnodar was previously targeted – sparking fury in Moscow.
Kyiv believes the radar stations are used for military purposes against Ukraine in the war.
RADAR SYSTEM TARGETS
Fire damage was clearly visible at buildings linked to the Voronezh radar station in Krasnodar, a £13.15 million base providing radar coverage for 3,750 miles.
A source in Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence said: “The Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle covered a distance of over 1,800 kilometres to the enemy object, setting a new record for the range of kamikaze drones.”
Russian sources reported that a UAV “crashed near Orsk” and the target of the drone “was possibly a military facility”.
Dmitry Rogozin, 60, a pro-Putin senator, former deputy prime minister and ex-head of the Russian Space Agency raged that the targeting of radar stations would spark nuclear tensions.
He said: “We stand not only on the threshold, but already on the edge, beyond which, if the enemy is not stopped in such actions, an irreversible collapse in the strategic security of nuclear powers will begin.”
And Rogozin – who as Russian space agency chief played a key role in the testing of the Satan-2 – or Sarmat – rocket, Russia’s most powerful weapon, blamed the US.
He snarled: “Washington has ordered a crime, hiring an irresponsible bandit trying to damage our missile attack warning systems facility,.”
He also threatened World War 3: “We can assume….that it was carried out on Kyiv’s own initiative or on the orders of some military maniac of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who wants to spark a Third World War.”
A satellite image shared by Radio Svoboda is reported to show traces of fire damage at the radar station near Orsk.
Source: https://www.the-sun.com/news/11471096/ukraine-russia-war-black-sea-palace-kamikaze-drone/