Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with more main points on Shahed-type drones.
Ukraine has hit Russia’s Primorsko-Akhtarsk airfield Krasnodar Krai with drones on the night of Feb. 6, general staff reported.
“The blow in the show and the explosions in the target area. A chimney exploded. The effects of the coup are clear,” he said.
The 230 kilometers (142 mile) airfield of the front line, is a key launch site for Russian Shahed drones used in opposition to Ukraine, said the general personnel, adding the installation of the installation, education and maintenance storage of airplanes for airplanes operating in the Obasts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
Russian local telegrams have reported explosions close to the airfield after the strike.
“Strike to similar comforts to ensure that Russia’s armed aggression opposes Ukraine and the terrorization of the civilian population will continue,” added the general.
Russia has increasingly relied on Shahed drones, capable of traveling up to 2,500 kilometers, to target Ukrainian infrastructure and residential areas.
The suicide drones are highly cost-effective, and easy to deploy when striking long-range targets. To further overwhelm Ukraine’s air defense system, Russia frequently launches Shaheds in tandem with ballistic missiles.
Initially imported from Iran, Russia began the national production of the Shahed in 2023, the 2,738 sets of YELABUGA Factory manufacturing of 2,738.
By 2024, production reached more than 5,700 sets in the first few months alone, according to CNN. Known as Geran in Russia, those drones are the cornerstone of Moscow’s long-term strike capabilities.
Despite setbacks, including a December fire at the Alabuga Special Economic Zone warehouse that destroyed $16 million worth of drone components, the facility remains essential to Russia’s drone operations.
Most drone attacks are introduced from Cape Chauda in Crimea, such as Yeisk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Kursk Oblast.
Russian drones movements have violated the airspace of neighboring countries, adding Romania, Latvia and Poland, those nations do not intercept projectiles.