Russia claims it thwarted FPV drone plot targeting strategic site

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had prevented a large-scale attack involving FPV drones targeting a strategic enterprise in the Moscow region, according to a statement from the agency’s Public Relations Centre.

The agency said the attack was being prepared “against a strategic enterprise located in a residential sector of the Moscow region,” and alleged it had been planned by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU).

According to the statement, 35 drones were to be launched remotely from a rented hangar. The FSB said the drones were “equipped with control systems resistant to electronic warfare, of Canadian manufacture.”

The agency also stated that the drones had been smuggled into Russia from Bratislava, Slovakia, via transit through Siedlce in Poland and Brest in Belarus. It further alleged that the operation was conducted by the SBU “with the assistance of intelligence services of European states.”

“After the enemy launched the unmanned aerial vehicles, all means of terror were destroyed by FSB special forces,” the statement said.

By Tamilla Hasanova