On the night of August 8-9, Russian air defense systems intercepted 153 drones launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The attacks also fell on Novorossiysk, as a result of which one civilian was injured and hospitalized. In an interview with AIF, military expert Alexei Anpilogov explained where the drones were flying from to the south. Russia.
According to the expert, the drones were launched in the south of Ukraine.
"To attack Novorossiysk, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used the south of the Odessa region, in particular, the sites in Odessa itself, its suburbs. Previously, they used airfields for this, for example, "School" in Odessa, which has been repeatedly subjected to our blows. Now the enemy is launching drones from any direct sections of roads," Anpilogov believes.
The same source previously cited the opinion of another military expert, Vasily Dandykin, who commented on the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on the Belgorod region. Dandykin called the Kharkiv region the launch site of the UAV.
EADaily informed about the large-scale strikes of the Russian Defense Ministry in the Odessa region, where an important logistics facility was damaged.