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Ukraine Carries Attacks Within Russia

Nadin Brzezinski
5 min readApr 27, 2022

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Claimed shot down Bayaktar in the Kursk region

If you decide to massively attack another country, massively kill everyone there, massively crush peaceful people with tanks, and use warehouses in your regions to enable the killings, then sooner or later the debts will have to be repaid,”

Zelensky’s presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak

Last night one of the channels on Telegram I follow went nuts. Reports of anti-aircraft fire came from Kursk, Belgorod, and Voronezh. Soon after an ammo depot in Belgorod cooked off.

Belgorod is well within Tochka range. Voronezh is too deep. So that had to be something else, assuming it was not trigger happy anti-air crews.

The other two announced no damage, and this morning the Russians claimed they shot down a Bayaktar TB2 in the Kursk Oblast. Like the helicopter strike over a month ago, Ukraine is not admitting to any of this in an obvious way. The need for line of sight makes this a tad interesting. Here are the stats for the Bayaktar, because both Kursk and Voronezh are within its range.

The statement from the president’s aid also has definite vibes of cannot confirm or deny. Why would the…

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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