Last night, Ukraine expanded its attacks on Russian soil by hitting with suicide drones the headquarters of the Southern Military District, located in Rostov, which is the place from which the war is directed. Although Western intelligence ensures that the big decisions are made personally by the autocrat Vladimir Putin from the Kremlin, it is in Rostov where those orders are managed. The number of victims is unknown, but senior officials of the Russian army were there at the time of the attack.
Two drones hit a building that became famous during the Wagner rebellion. In fact, it was the first step that Evgeny Prigozhin took on his way to Moscow. The mercenary group’s tanks surrounded the barracks and its garrison surrendered without firing a single shot. A video recorded the powerful bombardment, where a tongue of fire can be seen rising over the building at night.
Taking into account that the Rostov region borders Ukraine, and that this places it within the range of Ukrainian drones, it is striking that there was no anti-aircraft system worthy of the name at that military installation, where senior army officers worked. Russian, at the same level as in the Moscow neighborhoods where the regime’s ruling elite lives, including Putin himself, which are surrounded by several Pantsir anti-aircraft systems mounted on enormous pedestals or even buildings, as is the case with the Ministry of Defense.
Ukrainian drone bombings have become commonplace. The attack on Rostov is part of a much larger raid, which included Bryansk and Moscow. In fact, kyiv’s arm has grown so much that it is now capable of reaching 800 kilometers from its own border. Faced with the destruction of several strategic bombers stationed at their airfields, as happened in Pskov or Engels, the Russians have begun to place rubber tires on the fuselage of these planes, as if this layer of rubber would protect them from destruction.
Ukraine is managing to take the war beyond its borders thanks to the development of its drones, but also its commandos. In some cases, its drones are capable of covering hundreds of kilometers of Russian sky without being shot down to attack bases, military companies or airfields. In other cases, even more disturbing for the Moscow regime, drones are being launched from Russian territory itself, such as the two that hit the Kremlin palace itself, devices that do not have the capacity to travel long distances due to lack of autonomy. .
The concern is such that Putin’s purges have reached the top of the Russian generalship. Konstantin Ogienko, the general responsible for the air defense of the Moscow region, was arrested yesterday on a corruption charge. The head of Ukrainian intelligence, General Kirilo Budanov, assured that the attacks on Russia would become increasingly “deeper.” He now hopes to present a drone capable of exceeding a range of more than 1,000 kilometers.