Ukrainian drones strike enemy drone launch site at Donetsk Airport

Ukrainian drones strike enemy drone launch site at Donetsk Airport

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The Ukrainian Armed Forces' Unmanned Systems Forces have struck a storage, equipment, and launch preparation site for Russian Shahed and Geran drones at Donetsk Airport.

According to Ukrinform, this was reported by Unmanned Systems Forces Commander Robert Brovdi on Telegram.

According to him, “birds of the 1st Separate Center Unmanned Systems Forces inflicted massive damage on the storage, equipment, and launch preparation site for Shahed/Geran drones at Donetsk Airport (Donetsk, temporarily occupied territory) on the night of December 30.”

The operation was developed by the intelligence department of the 414th Separate Unmanned Strike Aviation System Brigade “Magyar's Birds,” in conjunction with the newly created Deep Strike Center of the Unmanned Systems Forces Group, the commander noted.

The strike was carried out on the drone logistics hub, the pre-flight preparation and maintenance point for the Geran / Shahed and Gerbera UAVs, the central warehouse for combat units for drones, the Gerbera storage warehouse, and the concentration point for enemy personnel and technical staff who carry out training and technical pre-launch maintenance of UAVs.

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As reported by Ukrinform, as a result of the strike by the Unmanned Systems Forces on the command post and deployment sites of special forces of the 14th Brigade of the Russian Military Intelligence (GRU) in the temporarily occupied Berdiansk, Donetsk region, 51 invaders were killed, and another 74 were wounded.

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