Ukraine expands long-range drone strikes target list, alcohol now on t

Details: Written by: Chris York; 28.Oct; Hits: 21

Ukraine faces a tricky dilemma as winter approaches. How can it disrupt an expected mass Russian missile campaign targeting the country's infrastructure while simultaneously being barred from using Western-supplied weapons to strike deep inside Russia?Despite being limited to the use of long-range kamikaze drones, one method employed by Kyiv has scored some spectacular success in recent weeks.One of the largest explosions of the full-scale invasion saw, in the words of a Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) source, an ammunition warehouse "literally wiped off the face of the earth" in Tver Oblast last month.This came just days after Ukraine confirmed attacks on two other arms depots, with the U.K.

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Defense Ministry saying the combined strikes caused "the largest loss of ammunition" in Russia during its all-out war against Ukraine.While the destruction of Russia's cruise and ballistic missiles by Ukrainian drones seems an obvious target for Kyiv's military planners, more recent strikes show the campaign is far broader. It now includes ethanol distilleries producing industrial alcohol."Russian military aviation cannot function without alcohol," Andrii Kovalenko, head of the counter-disinformation department at Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, said in a post on social media. His comments on Oct. 28 followed reports of a strike on an ethanol plant in Russia's Voronezh Oblast the evening before.Kovalenko wasn't referring to the drinking habits of Russian pilots, but to the ethanol used in the manufacture of a wide range of both everyday items such as mouthwash and paint, to military-grade products needed to keep an air force flying.

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