Ukrainian UAVs attack secret Russian military facilities.

(Dan Tri Newspaper) - Ukraine's most recent drone attacks targeted locations across Russia. Kyiv claims these were all secret military facilities.

An explosion in Russia caused by a Ukrainian drone attack (Photo: Telegram).

Russian military bases have long been a primary target for Ukraine in drone and missile attacks. Following the easing of restrictions on the use of Western weapons, Ukraine expanded the scope of these attacks, targeting Russian facilities involved in aerial operations in Ukraine, such as drone manufacturing plants.

The recent large-scale attack targeted at least three industrial facilities. If Ukraine's claims that these facilities operated as secret support centers for the Russian military are true, the attack could inflict significant damage on Moscow.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on January 10 that, during the recent attack, they intercepted and destroyed a total of 40 Ukrainian drones over Rostov, Kursk, Voronezh, Bryansk, Krasnodar, Belgorod, and the Sea of ​​Azov.

Independent news channel Astra reported that the drone attack caused a fire at an industrial area in the town of Gatchina in the Leningrad region.

According to the state news agency TASS , an acetone production facility caught fire during the attack. The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations later announced that the fire had been extinguished. Rostov Governor Yury Slyusar also confirmed this information.

Astra , citing local authorities, reported that the explosions caused toxic chemicals to spill from the factory, but there were no casualties. However, according to the news channel, Ukraine's target may have been a motorized transport company located near the site of the fire.

Another fire also broke out in Chaltyr, located in the Rostov region, during the recent attack. Ukrainian officials said the target of the attack was the Chaltyr brick factory.

On Telegram, Andriy Kovalenko, director of the Center for Combating Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, stated that the recent attack targeted "disguised military facilities".

He wrote: "Russia has disguised military factories as ordinary factories, attempting to conceal their true production activities."

According to local authorities, the fires caused by the attack have been extinguished. Yury Slyusar, the governor of the Rostov region, confirmed that there were no casualties in the raid, but information is still being gathered.

In another development, according to Russian media, early this morning, January 11th, Ukrainian drones attacked two buildings in the city of Kotovsk, about 430km southeast of Moscow.

Witnesses heard multiple loud explosions, including others after a drone crashed into the building. Telegram news channel Mash reported that at least five people were injured in Kotovsk.

Meanwhile, more than 15 drones were shot down in the southwestern Voronezh province. Another attack occurred in Anapa, a tourist town on the Black Sea coast, opposite Crimea.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/the-gioi/uav-ukraine-tan-cong-cac-co-so-quan-su-bi-mat-cua-nga-20250111151433810.htm