
Russian war channels report the use of balloons to launch attacks against critical infrastructure and airports.
Ukraine uses weather balloons to transport kamikaze drones towards Russian territory, managing to paralyze or delay up to 1,000 flights and affecting the Moscow Sheremetyevo airport.
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Ukraine employs innovative military solutions, such as balloon-borne drones, to attack infrastructure in Russia.
Ukraine continues to fight Russia with innovative military solutions. One of them is the use of kamikaze drones that are transported to Russian territory with weather balloons, to wreak havoc on critical infrastructure such as airports.
Specifically, Kremlin war channels on platforms such as Telegram report that balloons are used to transport drones at high altitude to the target area before launching, in order to cause maximum damage.
These drones have managed to paralyze or delay up to 1,000 flights in Russia this Saturday, and eyewitnesses explained that a column of smoke could be seen near the Moscow Sheremetyevo airport, in what is suspected to have been a crashed drone in the area.
Russian Telegram channels showed images of drones supported by large weather balloons flying through the sky near Russian airports.
"This is the type of device that the enemy is using to attack the Russian capital, in an attempt to disrupt the operations of the Moscow aviation center," the New Military Columnist channel reported on Telegram.
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