Amikaze Drones News Today

Russian forces have encountered a new enemy in the Black Sea: Ukraine’s arsenal of naval kamikaze drones. The latest of Ukraine’s maritime conquests was the Russian Mangust-class patrol boat, which it destroyed off the coast of occupied Crimea with a MAGURA naval drone. Ukraine shifted its focus to naval drones after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Several fires broke out in Dnipro due to falling debris and hitting kamikaze drones, regional governor Serhiy Lysak wrote on Telegram.

The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has obtained evidence that the Russians are using kamikaze drones over the nuclear reactors of the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). Source: DIU The video from a Russian FPV drone, obtained through radioelectronic reconnaissance devices, contains the marking UT4D.

Soldiers from one of Ukraine’s 117th Territorial Defense Brigade mobile air defense squads call themselves fowlers. The unit’s task is fending off Shahed kamikaze drones when Russia deploys these deadly birds to strike targets across the country, as well as watching the sky Ukraine shares with Russia over the border. When Shaheds breach Ukraine’s airspace in the north and head towards Sumy or Kyiv, the unit is the first to confront them.

Russia launched “several waves of Shahed-131/136 kamikaze drones from the south” targeting Ukraine's energy facilities, reported Ukraine's Southern Defense Forces on Telegram on April 12.

Air defense forces shot down 21 Russian Shahed kamikaze drones in southern Ukraine overnight and on the morning of April 11, the Southern Defense Forces reported.

After a reported Russian strike on the city, two fatalities and four injuries were confirmed by Vitaliy Kim, regional governor, on Telegram on April 11.

The Russian forces simulated another attack on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) on 9 April using drones. Ukraine reiterates that it does not commit any military action or provocations against the power plant.

Russian forces attacked a critical infrastructure facility in Zhytomyr Oblast with kamikaze drones on the night of 7-8 April, causing a risk of air pollution in Zviahel hromada [a hromada is an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories - ed.

Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 5 missiles and 13 Shahed kamikaze drones on the night of 4-5 April; all the drones were shot down. Source: Ukrainian Air Force on Telegram Quote from the Air Force: "As a result of an air defence operation, mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defence Forces shot down all 13 Shahed drones in Zaporizhzhia, Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts.