Information about Italy.Select the topics you want to know more aboutFor the second time in less than a month, the Russian naval base in Sevastopol I was attacked by a drone.Plumes of smoke were seen rising after the Saturday morning incident, which Russia-appointed city governor Mikhail Razvojev said came after a drone flew over the delicate military site.In strictly military terms, the attack is not significant.It is a drone, Razovozhaev said.Snapshots from a local Telegram channel appear to support this.But the main question is how a drone was able to evade the defenses of the Russian electronic warfare and fly right over the naval base.Small arms fire seems to be heard, not air defense systems Some videos The drone may have been shot down prior to delivery of the payload.Razovojev initially said the drone was not hit before saying it was.However, it is embarrassing to say the least for Russia, which is struggling to prove its ability to defend what it considers its own backyard.Experts like Justin Pronk of the Royal United Services Institute Research Center suggest the drone in the film could be a commercially available Chinese model, $ 9,500 (£ 8,030) Mugin-5, or a copy of it.Manufacturers claim it has a flight time of up to seven hours, a top speed of 150 km / h (95 mph), and can be adapted to carry a makeshift warhead.Manufacturers claim that the payload is 15-20 kilograms.The drone may also have been involved in the reconnaissance, though growing evidence of a pattern of drone strikes deep behind the front line in Crimea and elsewhere suggests something different.Russia said the naval base itself was hit by a drone at the end of July causing five people, which makes the fact that the defenses were not strengthened all the more notable.original video From a Russian military blogger, shows a similar-looking aircraft used in a kamikaze attack on an oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk, within Russian territory near Rostov, just across the border from occupied Donetsk.The similarity is unlikely to be a coincidence.Archie Bland and Nimo Omer walk you through the main stories and their meanings, for free every morning of the weekUkraine continues to refuse to take official responsibility for such attacks, even though it sometimes does so in private.In public, the country's leaders prefer to make informed comments that aren't always subtle.Take Volodymyr Zelensky's overnight statement: “This year, you can literally feel in the atmosphere of Crimea that the occupation is temporary and Ukraine is returning."The suggestion is that Ukraine has developed a new method of attack aimed at "wreaking havoc within Russian forces," said Zelensky's chief adviser Mikhailo Podolyak.He told the Guardian newspaper last week.Some experts believe that drones operated by special forces were responsible. Dramatic attack on the Sake Air Force base About nine fighter jets in support of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea were destroyed.In any case, such drone attacks will have a practical effect.The Institute for the Study of War said that "officials of the Russian occupation in Crimea are probably considering strengthening security on the peninsula" and that "such measures could remove the Russian security forces from the front lines".But the crucial point is the psychological effect.Repeatedly captured on video, it shows that Crimea and similar outposts behind the lines are unsafe, bringing the conflict closer to Russia and the occupied territories, while simultaneously (at least for now) focusing on military and industrial objectives.A series of social media videos show traffic jams on roads outside Crimea, including At least one was released on Saturday, indicating that Russians who moved to the area after its occupation and annexation in 2014 do not consider it safer. .Aharon Shows traffic jams From Sevastopol to Yalta.If this is the effect of a handful of drone strikes, Ukraine will consider the efforts justified.No wonder Razovoyev told the Russians in Sevastopol that it was time to fight the propaganda war better as he pleaded with everyone to stay calm because the local air defense system was now operational."Upload videos with our air defense systems working," he said.“Social media guru.Pop culture pioneer.Hardcore communicator.Business owner."Your email address will not be published.Required fields are marked *I give my consent for a cookie to save my data (name, email, website) for the next comment.