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The appearance of a UJ-22 close to the Russian capital coincides with a wave of drone attacks that Russian authorities blamed on Ukraine that targeted southern and western regions.
On February 28, the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, said that a UAV crashed-landed in the town of Gubastovo close to the capital, and it appeared it was headed for a “civilian infrastructure site.”
The Ukrainian drone was reportedly trying to hit a Gazprom gas compression site in the suburbs of Moscow, around 50 miles southeast of the Kremlin. The pictures uploaded on social media revealed that the drone was Ukrainian-made UJ-22.
Unsurprisingly, the Ukrainian authorities don’t appear to have made any remarks regarding the drone incident near Moscow. Ukraine doesn’t openly take responsibility for assaults inside of Russia.
UAV 🇺🇦 UJ-22 rinvenuto vicino al recinto della stazione di compressione del gas di Gazprom a Kolomna, vicino Mosca.
Oltre a questo, un drone di grosse dimensioni sarebbe stato avvistato nei pressi di San Pietroburgo, l'aviazione 🇷🇺 sarebbe dovuta intervenire per abbatterlo. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/JJGdV6czy3— OSINT-I (@OSINTI1) February 28, 2023
A Gazprom spokesperson confirmed to Russian media that the UAV allegedly clipped trees shortly before its target and crashed 10 meters from the outer fence of the gas compression facility.
If the most recent drone attacks came from Ukrainian soil, they would stand among the most daring missions since the Kremlin began its full-scale invasion last February.
Furthermore, the drone’s presence so near the capital clearly may lead to fresh criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s handling of the war on the home front.
The attacks caused airspace over St. Petersburg and areas closer to the Ukrainian border, like Voronezh and Belgorod, to be closed, making it a stressful day in Russia.
Besides that, the drones looked to have hit their targets in at least one instance. An explosive-equipped drone struck a Rosneft oil depot in the Krasnodar region early on Tuesday.
According to the reports, the drone attacks hit the depot’s boiler room. The facility is situated in Tuapse, and the city administration claimed that the drones were unsuccessfully hitting the oil tanks.
Tuapse is about 300 miles from the Ukranian border. Also, unsuccessful drone attacks were reported in Russia’s Belgorod and Bryansk regions, which are close to the Ukrainian border.
