A hearth destroyed at a warehouse the place elements for Shahed drones for the meeting plant within the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Russia’s Tatarstan. The facility held drone elements value round $16 million, Ukraine’s army intelligence directorate (HUR) stated on its Telegram channel on Dec. 23.
The Alabuga Special Economic Zone homes chemical, mechanical engineering and metallic therapy factories, considered one of which is the Yelabuga drone manufacturing facility that opened in July 2023. The facility produces Iranian designed Shahed and M3 Albatross reconnaissance drones for the Russia’s armed forces. The web site is located greater than 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) from Ukraine.
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HUR enumerated the losses inside the warehouse as being the fuselages for round 65 assault drones in addition to adequate engines, navigation techniques, and thermal imaging cameras to help the manufacturing of 400 of the drones.
Describing the reason for the hearth as a “thriller” regardless of its detailed information of the contents of the warehouse, the HUR put up described the hearth as devastating and stated, “Everything burned down.”
On the morning of Dec. 21, a drone assault on the Tatarstan regional capital Kazan, which is about 180 kilometers (112 miles) from the economics zone broken a number of buildings. While there isn’t a apparent hyperlink between the 2 occasions and with out claiming duty for the incident, Ukraine’s intelligence companies have a monitor file for finishing up sabotage operations in Russia’s rear areas both instantly or by way of regionally recruited “brokers.”
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As has develop into conventional in HUR posts it signed off with the phrase: “HUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reminds that there can be honest retribution for each battle crime dedicated towards the Ukrainian individuals.”
The domestically produced drones manufactured within the Yelabuga manufacturing facility, which is reported to supply 6,000 of the robotic plane yearly, have been utilized in ever rising numbers to assault Ukrainian cities.
On the morning of April 2, a HUR sponsored particular operation launched gentle plane transformed into drones towards the Yelabuga manufacturing facility which struck a dormitory constructing utilized by its staff injuring greater than a dozen. At the identical time a second manufacturing web site in Nizhnekamsk was additionally hit by a HUR drone.
