In Moscow, near the Salaryevo metro station, on the outskirts of the city, a P-18-2 Prima reconnaissance and target designation radar station was placed. Along with them, there should be short-range and medium-range air defense systems. This happened after the strongest drone attack on Russian facilities.
In January 2023, the Russian authorities installed Pantsir-S1 complexes near the Ministry of Defense, the Ostafyevo airfield, the residence of President Vladimir Putin in Novo-Ogaryovo and Valdai, as well as on an office building in Teterinsky Lane in the Tagansky District.
On February 22, Pantsir-S1 was spotted on Sparrow Hills opposite the Luzhniki stadium, where Putin performed.
Sirena counted seven such sites.
Before the appearance of air defense systems in December, military airfields in the Ryazan and Saratov regions of Muscovy were attacked by drones. As a result of these attacks, several Russian servicemen were killed. Attacks on airfields from which Russian military aircraft take off, striking at the civilian infrastructure of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense called terrorist attacks. The department said that the attacks were carried out by Ukrainian drones. The Ukrainian authorities have not officially confirmed their involvement in the events.
On February 28, there were five cases of drone attacks on Russian cities. Drones were spotted in the vicinity of Kolomna near Moscow, near the Voskresensk gas compressor station, as well as in the Belgorod region, the Bryansk region, Adygea and Tuapse, where two drones attacked the Rosneft oil depot.
Source: Racurs
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