Ukrainian forces strike Russian UAV operator training centre in Luhansk Oblast – video

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces and the Security Service of Ukraine's Special Operations Centre Alpha struck a UAV operator training centre in the city of Khrustalnyi in Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast.

Source: press service of the Unmanned Systems Forces; Robert "Magyar" Brovdi, Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces, on Facebook

Details: The Unmanned Systems Forces carried out middle-range strike attacks on a cluster of Russian troops and logistics facilities.

In Khrustalnyi, Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast, more than 90 kilometres from the front line, pilots from the 9th Kairos Battalion of the 414th Magyar's Birds Brigade struck a Russian deployment point, namely a UAV operator training centre. The operation was carried out jointly with the Special Operations Centre Alpha.

Brovdi said Russian personnel were inside a 2,600-square-metre training complex and a 5,700-square-metre building used as a temporary deployment point.

Intelligence reports indicate that the training centre housed artillery spotter UAV operators undergoing a full training course, other UAV operators, instructors and officers from the centre's command staff. The commander added that up to 30 light vehicles were at the site at the time.

Brovdi said Russia was concealing the number of its killed and wounded personnel, though they are likely to be significant.

The 413th Raid Separate Unmanned Systems Regiment also struck logistics depots belonging to a unit of Russia's 5th Army in temporarily occupied Donetsk Oblast, while the 1st Separate Centre struck a command and observation post of a UAV unit.

The operations were carried out in coordination with the Deep Strike Centre, a Ukrainian unit responsible for long-range operations.

The video released today also shows confirmation footage from Russian sources of the strike on the Kasta radar station carried out on 4 May.

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