Tag: drone
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Romania strikes another Russian drone in the Black Sea near its gas platform
Yesterday, Romanian F-16 fighter jets struck a Russian unmanned surface vehicle (USV), which was loaded with explosives and loitering just a few hundred meters from the Neptune Deep offshore natural gas platform in the Black Sea. One of the aircraft destroyed the maritime drone with its onboard cannon, neutralising the threat to the critical energy…
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Romania intercepts Russian Shahed drone in its territory
A Romanian F-16 pilot shot down a Russian Shahed/Geran-2-type drone in Buzău County, around 114 km from Bucharest. The drone entered Romanian territory via the Black Sea and travelled at approximately 200 km/h.It was intercepted by Italian Eurofighter jets and Romanian F-16 fighter jets, which successfully shot it down. The drone was a Shahed/Geran-2 type—an…
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Watch: Russia strikes bus stage in Zaporizhia as front-lines in the region begin pull back
Russia has murdered two Ukrainian civilians at a bus stop in Zaporizhia earlier today in what is part of Russia’s regular and deliberate strikes against Ukrainian civilians. A large drone can be seen falling at a nearly straight angle from the sky striking the bus stop location. Zaporizhia is also the region where the Russian…
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Frontex drone crashes south-west of Malta
A Frontex Heron 1 drone has crashed around 10 nautical miles south-west of Malta, according to aviation sources who spoke to The Maltese Herald. The AFM has deployed an AW139 helicopter to determine the location of the crash. The aircraft has been noted flying low and hovering in the Filfla area. The Unmanned Air Vehicle…
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Drone from Belarus crashes in Lithuania
A large drone from Belarus crashed in Lithuania in the Varėna district near the village of Lavysas last Monday morning. Lithuanian press reports state that that the Lithuanian Army activated its emergency response and the Lithuanian Prime Minister called an emergency meeting of the National Security Commission. Lithuania has been occasionally targeted by Russian drones…
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Iran targets British base in Cyprus
A security threat was declared at the British base of Akrotiri in Cyprus earlier today, afterr an Iranian Shahed drone struck the base but no casualties were reported. The incident has been confirmed by the President of Cyprus. The base is usually used as a launchpad for US fighter-jets to conduct missions against Iran when…
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Russia bombs passenger train in Ukraine while demanding the Donbas region
Yesterday, Russia struck a Ukrainian passenger train with a drone killing at least five people in total. The train was travelling from Chop (near Ukraine’s western borders with Hungary and Slovakia) to Barvinkove (via Lviv and Kharkiv). Separately, at least another two civilians were killed in Kyiv during Russia’s daily drones and missile air assaults.…
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Russian Shahed drone enters and crashes in Poland
Yesterday, on August 20th at around 2AM, a Russian Shahed drone entered and crashed near Warsaw, in a cornfield in the village of Osiny, the Łuków County of the Lublin Voivodeship. The Governor of the Lublin region, Krzysztof Komorski, confirmed that three buildings were damaged as a result of the crash. The location of the…
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Russia tests Lithuania with unarmed drone
Yesterday, Russia launched an unarmed Gerbera drone into Lithuania from Belarus raising a security alert that prompted Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas and other senior politicians to evacuate parliament and take cover in a bomb shelter. The drone was not shot down, but fell on its own near the Šumskas checkpoint, after flying into Lithuania airspace…
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Two Kurdish journalists killed in Kobani by drone strike
Two Turkish journalists were killed in Kobani at the end of this week as pro-Turkish forces attacked the Kurdish city of Kobani. The city is under fire by pro-Turkish groups while the Turkish army is amassing its units on its border after the Kurds are refusing to disarm and give up territory to the new…
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The US liquidates senior leader of terrorist group responsible for the latest attack on a US base
According to the US Central Command, the senior leader of Kataib-Hezbollah, the terrorist group that conducted an attack on a US base in Jordan, has been killed in a drone attack in Baghdad, Iraq. The terrorist group also suspended its activities following its attack. The attack targeted the terrorist leader whilst in a moving car…
