About 80% of the strikes on the refinery in the Russian Federation were inflicted by Ukrainian drones "February": what they struck (photo)
It is reported that the first flight of the drone "February" took place on October 22, 2022. In May 2023, the prototype of the drone hit the oil depot in the Russian village of a wave on the Taman Peninsula. Already in August was ready the first serial party of drones. On the same month, the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine used this unit in battle, hitting the 126th brigade of the coast guard of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in the Crimea in the superior.
As for blows on objects in the deep rear of Russia, the first long -range attack of "February" took place in September 2023. One of the sections of the highway in the Chernihiv region, which was once used as an airfield, was selected for launch. According to one of the participants of the first combat start, due to the fact that the route was tilted, the navigation of the drone "a little crazy" and the first few attempts to lift the drone into the air had to be interrupted.
In the end, the operators managed to start UAVs and the device with a 50-pound combat unit hit the oil depot near the airfield in Sochi. After 10 days, October 1, a second blow of "February" took place in the territory of the Russian Federation in the Adler area, near Sochi. Under the blow was the parking lot of helicopters, which, in particular, served the residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The day before in Adler, Vladimir Putin met with President of Kazakhstan Kassim-Zhomart Tokaev.
"Putin was 12 kilometers from the place where the second" February "arrived. We were then confirmed," the source of the publication said in intelligence. Soon the drones of "February" also flew to St. Petersburg. After that, orders for this UAV from different structures began to grow, as did the number of news about explosions in the deep Russian rear. As of May 2024, these drones ordered not only the intelligence services, but also the air forces of the Armed Forces.
Attacks on the Novolypetsky Metrobambite, as well as the refinery in Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Tatarstan, were the most loudest joint operations of several agencies. Attacks on objects in Ryazan became one of the business cards of "February", as there were videos on the network, which can see the exact strikes of several UAVs at the same point. To achieve this accuracy, Ukrainian experts do the work.
"I come to a description of the target for 15-20 pages of A4, where everything is painted to the bolt: where to get the drone so that I no longer fantasize. The same story with air defense, satellite images, radar data, etc. ," said one of the pilots. According to the publication, sometimes Ukrainian UAVs attack 10% of the Russian processing capacity in a few days. At the same time, strokes are mostly made of processing and export terminals.
It is at the expense of these objects that Russia receives oil -added petroleum products. "We have overcome the barrier that we have no aviation, we do not have to get the enemy deep in its territory," one of the members of the team, which struck. We will remind, on April 8 a Ukrainian analyst with nickname PSO1 reported that in the Orel region of the Russian Federation found a Ukrainian unmanned aircraft, similar to drones "February", which probably attacked Russian objects in March.