Has Russia started using unmanned vessels?
Over the weekend, a video went viral showing a tiny craft approaching a bridge in the Odessa region and exploding into it.
This evening the commander of the Ukrainian army, Valery Zlozheny, confirmed the attack in a conversation with the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley.
When a Russian missile hits a bridge in the Odessa region // Social networks
It happened in the Odesa region, near the village of Zatoka.
The only bridge that connects the two parts of the district on the shores of the Black Sea passes through the settlement.
Russia already bombed the district at the beginning of the war, and if it manages to blow it up now, the residents of the area will be forced to pass through the territory of Moldova in order to reach the southwestern part of the district by land - and leave it.
General Zaluzheny.
"Stabilizing the front in the area of Hamot", photo: AFP
In a conversation with General Milli, General Zlozhny said that the use of UAVs endangers civilian traffic in the Black Sea, and it is believed that the reason is the vessel's operating path. In late October last year, Ukraine itself used unmanned vessels to attack the Russian Black Sea Fleet near It is based in the city of Sevastopol in Crimea. A Russian military blogger estimated that "Russia began developing such anti-aircraft missiles after such a Ukrainian vessel was discovered off the coast of Crimea during the fall."
On the ground, Russia continues to concentrate effort in the Wahlder and Marinka region of the Donetsk region.
According to the Ukrainian army, in this sector the Russians launch 50 attacks every day - although it was not disclosed what the magnitude of the forces in each such attack was.
Zlozhny told Milli that the army is standing firm in this sector and is even launching counter-attacks and recapturing lost territories.
Even Behmut, which has been suffering from Russian attacks since June, is not surrendering, and according to the General Staff in Kiev, actions are being taken to stabilize the front in its sector.
Russian tanks and armored personnel carriers destroyed near Wahlder, yesterday, photo: AP
The open intelligence group Oryx, which closely monitors the losses of the parties, reported at the end of the week that in the Wahlder sector the Russians lost 100 tanks, APCs and other tools in three days. "Russia has big problems with the February attack," said the head of the Ukrainian Security Council today (Saturday) , Oleksiy Danilov, "They have already started it, they just don't announce it, but we repel it well.
In other words, the offensive they planned has already begun in incubation, but this is not the attack they wished for."
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