Neither the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine nor Russia have announced this strike.
Ukrainian forces may have destroyed a Russian command and training center Iranian droneswhich the occupiers use extensively for strikes in southern cities.
This is stated in report Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Analysts stress that this is still unconfirmed information, since neither the general staff nor the Russian side have officially announced it.
The experts refer to the Ukrainian military correspondent Andriy Tsaplienko, who wrote about the attack by the Ukrainian armed forces on the occupying facility in Chulakovka on the Kinburg spit in the Kherson region.
On September 26, following the strike, 40 Russians and 20 Iranian instructors who trained the invaders in the use of Iranian UAVs, including Shahed-136, were eliminated.
The “South” operational command on September 26 reported a successful attack on the Russians at the Kinburg Spit, but the drone control training center was not discussed in the report.
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The Kinburg Spit is the westernmost area controlled by the Russian occupation forces in the Black Sea, within 4 kilometers of Ochakov, controlled by Ukraine.
This makes it an excellent location for a drone control center from which Russia can direct strikes deep into Ukrainian territory, Western analysts say.
Iran has sold drones to Russia
As previously reported, Iran sold to Russia hundreds of their drones. Now Russia uses them in war, attacking the regions of Ukraine.
Over the course of this week, Russia has repeatedly carried out attacks on Odessa with the help of Iranian drones. On 23 September the city was attacked 6 Iranian drones, drones hit the administrative building in the port area and four residential buildings. The Russian Federation killed two people with Iranian drones, two more were injured.
September 25 Odessa was again attacked by drones, The enemy hit the administration building in the city center three times. On the night of September 26, 3 kamikaze drones were fired in the Odessa region, one was shot down, two hit military infrastructure.
This was decided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, on behalf of President Volodymyr Zelensky revoke the accreditation of the Iranian ambassadoras well as significantly reducing the number of diplomatic personnel at the Iranian embassy in Kiev in response to the sale of unmanned attack vehicles to Russia.