State Duma MPs from the Russian Federation, referring to the Ministry of Defense, acknowledged the inability to close the sky over St. Petersburg from UAV attacks.
Russia is unable to protect St. Petersburg from UAV attacks fully
According to Andrei Kartapolov, the head of the defence committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Defense does not have a sufficient number of air defence systems to completely cover the sky over St. Petersburg, which is the second most populous city in the Russian Federation after Moscow.
At the same time, the Russian politician began to invent and cynically assume that the Ukrainian military may begin to strike not only at industrial enterprises but also allegedly at objects of cultural and historical heritage in the territory of the Leningrad Region.
What is known about the new UAVs in service with the Ukrainian military
According to the information of Ukraine's MOD Deputy Chief, Lieutenant General Ivan Gavrylyuk, since the beginning of this year, the department has approved more than 40 types of weapons for use by the Ukrainian military.
Codification — i.e. the admission of an OVT sample to operation with the assignment of a NATO nomenclature number — allows it to be purchased from the manufacturer for the units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine with funds from the state budget, — notes Gavrilyuk.
He emphasised that among the new developments that have already entered service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine are self-propelled guns, mortars, specialised vehicles, and UAVs.
In particular, as Gavrilyuk emphasised, only during January the Ukrainian military received eight different modernised models of UAVs for use.
In addition, eight new types of ammunition for drones were developed in Ukraine.
The list of models approved for use in the Ukrainian army also includes foreign-made equipment. In particular, a British 155-millimeter self-propelled howitzer, a 120-millimeter self-propelled mortar of Polish production (on an armored personnel vehicle chassis), Gavrilyuk emphasised.
Two types of rescue parachutes of domestic production have also been accepted, replacing parachute rescue systems of Soviet development.
