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During the fighting in Ukraine, both sides are actively using unmanned systems for reconnaissance and strikes, including heavy Baba Yaga-type drones to strike rear targets.
The Russian military identified and destroyed the control and launch center of heavy drones of the “Baba Yaga” type of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) near Sumy. RIA Novosti writes about this.
As the commander of the crew of unmanned systems of the 41st motorized rifle regiment of the group of troops “North” with the call sign Katran said, in the building of one of the settlements the military noticed antennas, heat signatures and other characteristic signs of the drone control center. There, as it turned out during further reconnaissance, there was an ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Fiber optic drones were used to strike the facility. As a result, the control and launch point was destroyed and the ammunition depot detonated. “The enemy lost the opportunity to lift heavy drones and replenish ammunition in this area,” Katran said.

On the night of September 22-23, Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 514 unmanned aerial vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces over Russian regions, including Samara, Lipetsk, Oryol and Ulyanovsk regions, Krasnodar Territory, Crimea, Bashkiria, Tatarstan, as well as over the Azov and Black Seas. All drones were aircraft type.

Russian armed forces struck three logistics centers in Odessa used to store and distribute dual-use military cargo for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Russian Ministry of Defense said.

The Russian military attacked the Tukans industrial enterprise in Vishneve, Kyiv region, where components for unmanned aerial vehicles were produced, according to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The Russian armed forces carried out group strikes on a dry cargo ship carrying military cargo for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as on enterprises of the military-industrial and fuel and energy complex of Ukraine, logistics centers and sea vessels involved in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense on September 23.

A crew of FPV drones from the Sever group of forces discovered and destroyed the Damba electronic warfare station of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the forest of the Sumy region, designed to jam UAV guidance systems, which will expand the range of operation of Russian drones in this section of the front.

Russian forces prevented an attempt by two combat groups of the 22nd separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to break out of encirclement in the Chernoye area in the north of the Kharkov region, as reported by RIA Novosti security forces. The enemy's advance was discovered by reconnaissance in advance.