Kyiv, Ukraine – Russian Kamikaze drones swarms stormed the Ukrainian air defense fire on Tuesday, shrieking and emerging kyiv in one of the greatest war attacks.
Oleksandra Yaremchuk, who lives in the Ukrainian capital, said that the sound of two or perhaps three drones about his house felt new and alarming.
“This horrible buzz is the sound of death, it makes you feel helpless and panic,” said the 38 -year -old bank employee Al Jazeera, describing his insomnia night in the northern district of Obolon. “This time I listened to it in stereo and in Dolby Surround,” he joked.
In 2022, he crossed with adhesive tape on the windows of his apartment to avoid being hit by glass fragments and spent most of the night in a trembling chair in his corridor.
This week's Russian attack involved seven missiles and 315 drones, the royed real explosives, as well as the cheapest lures that distract and deplete the Ukrainian air defense, kyiv officials said.
The assault was the third since the bite of June 1, Ukraine to destroy the Russian strategic bombers fleet in four landing tracks, including those of the Arctic and Siberia.
The wave of attacks also showed the tactics of Russia of the overwhelming Ukrainian air defense units with the large number of objectives that are approaching from different directions.
“Drones have been evolving for a while, now [the Russians] Use the mass, ”said Al Jazeera de Andrey Pronin, one of the pioneers of the Ukraine Drones War that directs a school for drones in kyiv.
The attack was mainly addressed to kyiv, killing a woman, wounding four civilians, damaging buildings in seven districts and causing fires that wrap Kyiv prevaralwn in the rancio smoke.
He damaged the Cathedral of Santa Sophia, the oldest in Ukraine, whose construction began a millennium after the conversion of Kyivan Rus, a medieval superpower that gave birth to Ukraine, Russia and Belarus of today.
The attack also arrived in the southern city, killing two civilians, hurting nine and hitting a maternity room in the Puerto del Mar Negro that is near Crimea attached and lacks the Western air defense systems of kyiv.
'The Russians learn, every time, after each flight'
The Russia-Ukraine war triggered the evolution of the drones that already rewritten the war play book worldwide.
While Kyiv focuses on the strikes identified in the Russian military infrastructure, oil refineries, landing clues and transport centers, some observers believe that Moscow deliberately chooses civil areas to terrorize the average Ukrainians, and perfects the lethality of the strikes.
“Of course, [Russians] Learn, every time, after each flight. They make conclusions, check how they flew, where the mobile [Ukrainian air defence] The groups were, ”said Prin.
To save expensive Anti-Drone missiles made by the United States, Ukraine uses “mobile air defense units” that use machine guns mounted in trucks often operated by women and parked on the outskirts of urban centers.
The Russians “used to fly the drones in two, now they fly in three,” pronin said on the Iranian -made Shahed drones and their versions of modified Geran Russians that transport up to 90 kilograms of explosives.
Nikolay Mitrokhin, a Bremen University researcher in Germany, appointed three factors that contribute to the heartbreaking efficiency of recent drones attacks.
First, the number of Russian drones increased dramatically, requiring more air defense power and, most importantly, more ammunition, he told Al Jazeera.
“The latter causes most of the problems, and after three mass attacks in a week, its number possibly was not simply enough,” he said.
Earlier this week, the White House diverted 20,000 advanced anti-Drone missiles for Ukraine to Washington's allies in the Middle East.
Second, the Geran drones (“Geranio”) “evolve” and fly more than five kilometers on the ground at an unalkrained height to firearms and many surface missiles in the air, Mitrokhin said.
These days, the Geranos have a range of 900 km (660 miles) and are linked to their operators through satellite terminals, made of stars made by the United States of smuggling in Russia or even SIM cards of Ukrainian cell phone operators, according to Ukrainian officials and intelligence.
A Russian plant in the city of the Volga de Yelabuga river began manufacturing Geran in 2023 and now produces about 170 of them daily.
Thirdly, Russia uses more drones lure that wasted aerial defense ammunition, said Mitrokhin.
Therefore, kyiv “needs large amounts of drones that could quickly earn the height of five to six kilometers, locate flying Geranos and their analogues and knock them down,” he said.
Instead, Ukrainian forces have focused on long -distance attack drones such as Lytyi (“fierce”) that have reached military and naval bases, oil deposits, weapons of weapons and metallurgical plants in western Russia, he said.
“Now, Ukraine needs to quickly change its strategy and produce 5,000-10,000 high-flight drones hunters per month. Which is not easy,” he concluded.
'I felt the return of what we all feel in 2022'
Russia's attacks underline Washington's failure to begin the settlement of the peace of the largest armed conflict in Europe since 1945.
The attacks “drown the efforts of the United States and others worldwide to force Russia to peace,” wrote Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Telegram, hours after Tuesday's attack.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, promised to end the War of Russia in Ukraine “in 24 hours”, but the diplomatic efforts of his administration did not yield results.
Despite the occasional criticisms of the Kremlin War in Ukraine, Trump prefers not to use the Diplomatic and Economic Arsenal of the White House to force Russia to begin a peace agreement or even a high 30 -day fire that Kyiv proposed.
While Washington continued to supply US military aid according to the administration commitments of President Joe Biden, the Trump cabinet did not promise to provide additional shipments of weapons or ammunition.
“This administration has a very different vision of that conflict,” said the Secretary of Defense of the United States, Pete Hegseth, to a Congress audience on Tuesday.
“We believe that a negotiated peaceful agreement is the best for the parties and interests of our nation, especially with all competitive interests worldwide,” he said, without specifying the scope of cuts.
Trump's policies leave many Ukrainians staggering.
“He lost to the cold war on Putin,” said Valeii Omelchenko, a retired police officer in the center of kyiv Al Jazeera. “Sincerely, I can't understand how one can be so undecided and cowardly towards Russia.”
However, the horror of drone attacks helps to join the Ukrainians even more, he said.
“In the morning, I felt the return of what we all feel in 2022, when we treat total strangers like the family, asking them how they were, trying to help them,” he said.
