The Ukrainian Air Force has carried out two drone strikes on Russian targets using Turkish-made drones, officials said.
Lt. Gen. Mykola Oleshchuk, the chief of Ukraine‘s Air Force, confirmed they used ‘life-giving’ Bayraktar TB2 drones.
The Ukrainian Embassy released footage of a Russian convoy consisting of more than a dozen vehicles blown to pieces by the strike.
The footage was shot near the city of Malyn, about 60 miles northwest of Kyiv.
Ukraine’s Air Force claims to have conducted successful drone attacks against Russian forces
In one image shot by a Turkish drone, a purported convoy of Russian trucks is shown driving
Seconds later, the entire group are blown to bits having been the victims of a drone strike
Ukrainian servicemen push a Bayraktar TB2 drone, or unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), file photo from June 2021
The Air Force said that one of the strikes occurred in the town of Chornobaivka, in southern Ukraine.
The area has been the focus of intense fighting in the past few days.
‘Never a rose without a thorn,’ the embassy wrote in one of the tweets. ‘Russian invaders have to put up with Bayraktar TB2s.’
On Saturday, Ukrainian forces released another drone video which showed a Russian convoy being hit by a drone strike, this time in the southern city of Kherson.
The first shipments of the Turkish-made drones began arriving in Ukraine in 2019 reports the Wall Street Journal.
The TB2 aircraft are able to stay in the air for 25 hours at a height of 25,000 feet with the pilot able to control it from several hundred miles away.
Ukrainian forces have managed to halt the advance of Russian troops on the capital, blowing bridges into the city to hinder the advance of Moscow’s soldiers.
Russian forces were on Sunday afternoon destroyed in Bucha, near the Gostomel air base in the north west of Kyiv, after becoming trapped when the Irpin bridge into the city was destroyed.
Footage posted online purported to show the harrowing aftermath of what military experts said was likely a drone strike on the Russian Airborne Forces column, with parts of vehicles strewn across the road in a warp, fiery heap.
Earlier on Sunday, Ukrainian servicemen were pictured roaming in the center of Kyiv to enforce a 39-hour curfew to keep people off the streets.
Mayor Klitschko said no Russian troops had managed to enter the city despite the bombardment.
A Russian tank burning in the Ukrainians city of Sumy, in north-eastern Ukraine, pictured on Sunday
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense on Sunday claimed it has killed more than 4,300 Russian soldiers in the first three days of fighting. Russia has not released an updates on its military losses. Pictured: An Ukrainian Territorial Defense fighter examines a destroyed Russian infantry mobility vehicle GAZ Tigr after the fight in Kharkiv on Sunday
Russian forces entered Ukraine’s second largest city of Kharkiv on Sunday
He also warned those outside after 5pm and before 8am will be considered part of ‘the enemy’s sabotage and reconnaissance groups’ – he later said there were no Russian troops inside the city.
But he announced that at least nine civilians had been ‘lost or killed’ in the capital, among them one child, since the start of the invasion.
Satellite imagery taken on Sunday also showed a large deployment of Russian ground troops moving in the direction of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv from approximately 40 miles away, a private US company said.
The images released by Maxar Technologies showed a deployment comprised of hundreds of military vehicles and extending more than 3 miles.
The company has been tracking the buildup of Russian forces for weeks. The latest pictures could not be independently verified.
A handout satellite image made available by Maxar Technologies shows Russian ground forces in convoy near of Ivankiv, Ukraine
This Maxar satellite image shows a column of Russian military vehicles as they move towards Kyiv, on the P-02-02 road (Shevchenka Road) on the outskirts of Ivankiv
Ukraine’s health ministry said on Sunday that 352 civilians, including 14 children, had been killed since the beginning of Russia’s invasion. It also said that 1,684 people, including 116 children, had been wounded
It was a day a day when the expected assault on Kyiv again failed to materialize and the Ukrainians claimed to have driven Russian forces out of the country’s second city Kharkiv.
Oleh Sinehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional administration, today said Ukrainian troops had managed to reclaim the city. In a post on Telegram, he said: ‘Control over Kharkiv is completely ours!
‘The armed forces, the national police, and the defense forces are working and the city is being completely cleansed of the enemy.’
Kharkiv’s defense came as Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense today claimed Ukrainian troops had killed or injured more than 4,300 Russian soldiers in the first three days of fighting. Russia has not released an updates on its military losses.
After a grueling night of Russian attacks on the outskirts of the city on Sunday, mayor Vitali Klitschko was silent for several seconds when asked if there were plans to evacuate civilians if Russian troops managed to take Kyiv
Charred military vehicles and rubble are seen in Bucha, Ukraine, on Sunday