The Ukrainian military attacked the capital Chechnya on Sunday, with locals reporting that three drones had focused army and police bases.
Two of the bombs have been shot down, whereas the third hit the OMON base in Akhmat-Grozny, which reportedly hosts models of the Chechen chief’s non-public military.
Footage posted on Russian Telegram channels confirmed a long-range, plane-like missile hurtling towards a constructing within the metropolis of Grozny, accompanied by the sound of gunfire within the background, adopted by a big explosion.
Posts on a Chechen Telegram channel mentioned the assaults focused key services together with a riot police base, the second regiment of the Chechen Interior Ministry’s patrol and guard service and a army base linked to the Russian struggle effort.
Self-styled Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov it mentioned no casualties had been reported and that it could reply with “extra exact and harsher retaliatory strikes.”
Chechnya is a predominantly Muslim republic throughout the Russian Federation. Kadyrov was a Moscow’s vocal supporter of the war and despatched forces to Ukraine, about 1,000 km away, to battle alongside Russian forces.
Video footage appeared to point out the drone exploding after flying right into a constructing
Yan Matveyev, a Russian army analyst, wrote on social media that the drone was doubtless an A-22, a modified gentle plane that might have been used by Kiev for long-range unmanned strikes in Russia.
Yaroslav Trofimov, the Wall Street Journal’s chief international affairs correspondent, mentioned on X that the drones “flew at the very least 500 miles.”
The assault is Ukraine’s third this month within the area. Earlier this week, a drone was shot down over a police barracks, with 4 guards struggling minor accidents from falling particles. Last week, a drone reportedly struck the roof of a police facility.
In October, the roof of a army coaching middle within the Chechen city of Gudermes was set on hearth in what gave the impression to be the primary Ukrainian drone strike directed at Chechnya for the reason that struggle started in February 2022.
Regarding Sunday’s assault, Kadyrov mentioned on Telegram: “Next time you consider attacking the Chechen Republic with drones, take into account that we’ll launch selective assaults on locations the place Personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces they’re centered. And the results of such assaults will probably be many instances extra horrible.”
