A significant fracture: Ukraine has gone into a new stage of strikes in the rear of Russia - isw

According to analysts, the first Ukrainian strikes in Tatarstan are a significant fracture in the ability of Ukraine's defense forces to beat Russian rear at far distances. Ukraine has improved its ability to attack the Tales of the Russian Federation with drones. Analysts of the American Institute for War Study (ISW) reported. The report of April 2 states that Ukraine has struck Russian military production and oil refining infrastructure in the Republic of Tatarstan.

It is located over 1200 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. According to experts, on April 2, Russian propagandists began to report that three drones attacked a special economic zone "Alabuga", located near the settlement of Elabuga. The report states that Russia uses the production capacities of the Alabuga economic zone to produce Shahhed-136/131 drones. It is reported that the blow was also inflicted at the Taneko oil refinery in Nizhnokamsk.

Russian sources reported that the remedies of electronic struggle of the invaders suppressed the drone, which resulted in the infrastructure of the oil refining plant and caused a fire. Analysts noted that the impact of the Ukrainian drone on Taneko touched the main installation, which accounts for about half of the oil refinery.

"Russian sources, including the head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnivanov, deny that the strikes have caused any significant damage to the drones of drones at the AZABUGA OEZ, nor Taneco oil refinery,-analysts said. Drones in Russian oil refineries have led to a stop about 14% of the total oil refinery of the Russian Federation. is a necessary component of the campaign of Ukraine for the use of asymmetrical means for degradation of industries that supply and support the Russian army, " - said analysts.

Recall that April 2 became known that UAVs attacked enterprises in Tatarstan The authorities were confirmed by the blow. The attacks were undergoing enterprises in Elabuz and Nizhnokamsk. The State Duma deputy Andriy Gurulev stated that he did not rule out that the drone that attacked Tatarstan could be launched from the steppes of Central Asia.