On the night of August 2, the Russian army launched groups of Shahed drones, stuffed with tens of kilograms of explosives, for a new terrorist attack on various regions of Ukraine. Explosions in Kyiv and suburbs (source LIGA.net), as well as in Izmail in the south of Odessa (local publics).
One direction of attack is through the northeastern section of the border of Ukraine, the second is from the Kuban.
01:04. According to the “Shaheds” in the Kyiv region works air defense. In the Odessa region – Also (there is a group of UAVs moving over the Black Sea towards the southIshmael).
01:41. “Shaheds” from the Black Sea approaching to the mouth of the Danube.
01:45. Threat from drones for Bila Tserkva and Chernihiv, Air Force writes.
02:17. Air defense works in the Izmail direction. Strong explosions. It is not known whether there were arrivals.
02:21. Kyiv was given a little sleep while the drones were flying in the region, but now, the alarm is already in the capital.
REFERENCE. “Sheed“(Shahed-136, Geran-2”) – “tailless” loitering ammunition in the form of a delta wing, kamikaze drone of Iranian, and later Russian production. Length ~ 3 m, span ~ 2.2 m, weight ~ 200 kg , including the mass of the warhead ~ 40 kg. Range of flight unknown, but it is enough for hundreds of kilometers at altitudes of tens of meters and above at a speed of ~170 km/h. Equipped with a 50 hp two-stroke engine, whose “moped” sound hard to confuse with something else. Shahed-131 (“Geranium-1”) is smaller, has a b / h up to 15 kg. Iran, an ally of Russian terrorists, handed over to the Russian Federation over 1,000 “shaheeds” for its genocidal war against Ukraine, and since 2023 it has been produced in the Russian Federation. First recorded at the front in September 2022 near Kupyansk.
02:23. Sounds of explosions on the outskirts of Kyiv. On arrival does not look like. air defense
02:33. The south of the Odessa region – another attack of “shaheeds”, write Armed Forces of the Armed Forces. They go along the mouth of the Danube.
On the night of August 2, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said she had “received information” that Russia was allegedly “ready to return to negotiations on a grain agreement”, but “we have not yet seen any evidence of this.” How Russia is ready, Ishmael hears/feels now.
02:39. Kyiv air defense shoots down terrorist drones. 02:50. Again, flashes over the city – these are the amazed “Shaheds”.
02:53-03:02. Strong explosions in the suburbs. And the work of air defense, and, possibly, the arrivals / falls of downed drones.
03:10. In the Solomensky district of Kyiv there is damage non-residential premises. In Svyatoshinsky, after the fall of the UAV wreckage, a tree burns.
03:10. New explosions in Izmail.
03:16. So far, only Kyiv and the region, and the Odessa region as well, have been without an all-clear alarm. The rest can sleep.
03:28. Mayor of Kyiv writesthat the emergency services received a message about an explosion in the Goloseevsky district. The information is being specified.
03:33. Lights out in Kyiv and the region. Ishmael is not here yet.
03:47. Explosions in Izmail.
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On July 26, 2023, President Zelensky announced that Ukraine had received a strengthening of the air defense system – he would be sent “to where it is most needed now.” In Krivoy Rog, a video of an Iskander strike on a residential building was filmed: the “operator” was found and handed over to the SBU.
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2023-08-02 00:00:00
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