Officers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) have acknowledged the effectiveness of new kamikaze drones (UAVs) used by the Russian army. The American edition of The New York Times (NYT) wrote about it.
The Russian army is increasingly using new and, as noted by Ukrainian officers, frighteningly effective weapons, the NYT reports. I am referring to the new strike drones Geran-2 which are considered by Western experts as similar to Iranian kamikaze drones Shahed-136. According to the author of the publication, these drones are already actively crushing the Ukrainian military on the battlefield.
“A powerful weapon is the so-called kamikaze drone with a warhead weighing around 80 pounds, which explodes on impact,” the article notes.
The publication reports that in one of its first combat applications, the Geran-2 destroyed an American M777 155-mm howitzer. According to Ukrainian Colonel Rodion Kulagin, who was quoted by the author, half a dozen of these drones destroyed some of the howitzers and armoured vehicles of his unit. There were also tangible losses in manpower in that raid.
Vladimir Danchenko, an AFU captain who witnessed a drone strike on a self-propelled howitzer, described how the exploding Russian UAV destroyed the gun.
“It wasn’t like the artillery that hit us before. I haven’t encountered anything like that,” he was quoted as saying by an American publication.
Earlier, German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said it was premature to label the recent developments in Ukraine involving the regrouping of Russian troops in the Kharkiv region as a turning point in Russia’s special operation. “It’s difficult to assess it because we don’t know how the Russians will react to it now,” she said.
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