Russia launches 110 attack drones into UkraineA drone hit a residential building in the western city of Ternopil, killing at least one person and injuring three others, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.Efrem Lukatsky/AP
ABC NEWS | Published December 5, 2024
Belarus’ opposition say Russian strike UAVs are overflying the country nightly.
LONDON — “Europe’s last dictator” — as Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has often been termed — thus far appears to have kept his nation out of the worst of the spiralling war engulfing his neighbors to the east and south.
The 70-year-old provided invaluable material and political support for Russian ally President Vladimir Putin in his war on Ukraine, even offering Belarus as a launchpad for the doomed Russian drive towards Kyiv in the early stages of the full-scale invasion.
Since then, Russian forces have used Belarusian territory to launch ballistic missiles into Ukraine. Belarus houses bases at which Russian troops train for battle and hospitals where they recover.
Minsk even now hosts Russian nuclear warheads and Lukashenko brokered the short-lived settlement between the Kremlin and Wagner financier Yevgeny Prigozhin after the latter’s ill-fated 2023 mutiny.
As the war in Ukraine escalated and the enmity between Moscow and its Western rivals deepened, Lukashenko’s apparent hesitance to fully commit to the conflict seems to have bought him some level of freedom from retaliation.
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RELATED: Lost and spoofed: How Ukraine redirects Russian drones to Belarus
EURONEWS | Published December 5, 2024
Ukraine has a new way of countering Moscow’s increased use of Shahed drones in mass attacks — redirecting them back to Russia or into the airspace of Kremlin-friendly Belarus.
While Moscow might have been producing more drones to attack Ukraine, Kyiv has found a way to crash them or send them back where they came from.
On Sunday night, Russian forces launched 110 Shahed drones and other decoys against Ukraine. Some 52 of them were shot down by Ukraine’s air defence forces, while 50 were deemed “lost” — not shot down deliberately by the air defence, and they did not reach their intended targets.
So where did more than four dozen drones disappear to?
“Basically, what Ukraine is doing is spoofing. Meaning they are feeding in false GPS targets to these Shahed — or in Russian terms, Geran-2 drones — to make them veer off course,” John Hardie, deputy director of the Russia Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, explained.
“The drones have a system that’s supposed to prevent jamming. But what these are doing is kind of sneaking in and not letting the drone know that the targets are being changed. It’s tricking it to going in the wrong direction,” Hardie told Euronews.
This is possible because of improved electronic warfare interference tactics. The number of Shahed or decoy drones reported “lost” due to Ukrainian electronic warfare (EW) interference increased significantly between October and November, the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War think tank (ISW) said.
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SOURCE: www.euronews.com
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