The destroyed drone was found near the railway tracks in New Moscow. According to the news of the SHOT Telegram channel, the drone painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag is homemade.
The plywood and foam plastic wing also featured the inscription “Victory to Ukraine” and an emblem indistinguishable from the photo, possibly a stylized symbol of the Ukrainian Air Force.
“Experts identify what’s inside, who started it, and where it started,” the message says.
A source of 360 TV channels in the emergency services said the crashed drone was lying 100 meters from the railroad. The found fragments were reported to the police by a local resident of the village of Svitino, the rural settlement of Voronovsky.
“Probably the wreckage of the UAV was found near the railway tracks, there was no victim,” said a TASS interlocutor from law enforcement.
On March 26, a Ukrainian Tu-141 Swift drone crashed and exploded in the city of Kireevsk in the Tula region, resulting in three shrapnel wounds from the explosion.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that as a result of the deactivation of the navigation system of the Ukrainian UAV by the Pole-21 electronic warfare complex, the UAV lost its direction and fell over the city.
The governor of the Tula region, Alexei Dyumin, promised compensation to the residents of Kireevsk injured in the drone explosion and compensation for the damage to the owners of the affected houses. As a result of the emergency, 10 households were affected.
At a meeting of the operational headquarters to eliminate the consequences of the explosion in Kireevsk, the official said that compensation will be 100 thousand rubles for each of the injured, and 1 million rubles for those who need repairs. Also, according to Dyumin, residents of Kireev who have lost their homes will be issued a certificate to purchase a new home.
Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov said that on February 28, a drone crashed near a civil infrastructure facility in Kolomna.
“This happened near the village of Gubastovo, the target was probably a civilian infrastructure facility, it was not damaged. The head of the region emphasized that there was no loss of life and destruction on earth.
According to him, the FSB and “other authorities” are interested in the situation, nothing threatens the safety of residents. According to local media, the crashed drone was found near the fence of a gas compressor station in Kolomna District.
On February 6, the governor of the Kaluga region, Vladislav Shapsha, reported that “at night the inhabitants of Kaluga heard an explosion” – a drone exploded on the outskirts of the city.
“There is no damage to the civil and social facilities. There were no casualties,” the district president assured.
Now explosions of Ukrainian drones in areas near Moscow are quite rare, such cases are rare, unlike the Donbass, Belgorod and Bryansk regions. However, the Armed Forces of Ukraine actively uses drones for attacks on the territory of Russia. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation regularly reports that several Ukrainian UAV units were destroyed by air defense forces per day. According to the statements of the RF Ministry of Defense, the largest activity of UAV unmanned aerial vehicles was recorded in the territory of the DPR and LPR.