Ukrainian Drones STRIKE Russian Oil Depot – Then This Happened...

At 0217 hours, eight Ukrainian UJ-26 Beaver drones crossed deep into Russian airspace, flying low and silent toward a key oil pipeline. What followed was one of the most daring deception strikes of the war. As the drones crept through river valleys at treetop height, two Ukrainian R-360 Neptune missiles streaked high overhead, bait for Russia’s elite S-400 air defense network. The decoy gambit worked. While Russian radar fixated on the fast, obvious missiles, the drones slipped unseen below the radar horizon.
Soon, chaos erupted. Mi-24 Hind gunships scrambled to hunt the low-flying targets, unleashing Yak-B gatling fire and S-8 rockets into the dark. Russian Igla-S missiles failed to lock onto the drones’ tiny heat signatures. Even ZU-23 guns and Shilka radars struggled to track something so small and slow. Despite heavy losses, several Beavers made it through. Their warheads tore into the pumping stations, control buildings, and massive fuel tanks that destroyed the entire Stalnoy Kon pipeline node.
This is the story of how eight cheap drones outsmarted Russia’s most advanced defenses and wiped out a strategic energy hub in one night.

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The event on which the video is based:
https://babel.ua/en/news/120781-druzhba-oil-pipeline-attacked-again-third-time-in-a-month