Russia has deployed Shahed suicide bombers from the sea in recent attacks, but bad weather and waves have combined to help mask the sound of the drones’ engines as they approach their targets.
Natalia Khmeniuk, spokeswoman for Ukraine’s Southern Operations Command, said on state television that the drone flew low over the water, then rose sharply over the coast and headed directly toward residential areas.
He said Moscow employed similar tactics when it first used Shahed, but has seen a resurgence since as it continues to experiment with ways to exploit Ukraine’s air defenses.
“This tactic is not new and has been applied since the beginning when trying to muffle the distinctive sound of Shahed heard from a distance. And many mobile air defense groups first use It’s no secret that we often focus primarily on sound,” Humenuk said.
Khmeniuk said air defenses “worked effectively,” but the military was trying to understand whether Russia’s new tactic of using bad weather to protect against approaching drones posed a threat to Ukraine. .
“We are still studying this issue, but there were definitely complexities in the operation of air defense systems,” she said.
“Shahed drones are particularly sensitive to sound. Perhaps they wanted to hide this dangerous sound behind thunderstorms, lightning and thunder.”
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Last night’s drone strike hit Kryvyi Rikh, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in central Ukraine, and destroyed all targets over the Odessa and Mykolaiv regions.
He added that Odesa’s port infrastructure remains a target for Russia.
In recent days, Russia Experimenting with new strike package It uses various combinations of missiles and drones, or sometimes just missiles, to penetrate Ukraine’s air defenses.
