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A radar facility more than 1,800 miles away in Russia was damaged, according to satellite imagery. These attacks have sparked fear among U. S. officials.
By Maria Varenikova
In recent days, Ukraine has carried out a series of drone strikes on Russia, adding one of the most far-reaching moves of the war: radar stations used, at least in part, as nuclear early warning systems through Moscow.
On Monday, Ukraine struck a radar station near the border with Kazakhstan, more than 1,800 kilometers away, a Ukrainian intelligence official said. Ukrainian experts said the facility often ran into missile threats from Asia.
On Tuesday morning, the governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region announced that a Ukrainian drone had been shot down in the skies over the town of Armavir, which is home to two radar stations. Ukraine did not report any new movement that day.
Ukraine has used its own drones and missiles to carry out the strikes, but they come as officials in Kyiv have made urgent appeals to the United States to allow them to fire U. S. -made rugged weapons into Russia. Biden’s leadership had resisted those calls for weeks to fear being dragged into a wider war, but has now agreed to allow Ukraine to use its weapons to fire on Russia, though it opposes military sites being used to attack the Kharkiv region.
The attacks on radar systems are also worrying U. S. officials about escalation, according to a senior Biden administration official. This week, the leadership raised considerations with Ukraine over Kyiv’s recent drone and missile moves against at least three nuclear precautionary radar stations in Russia in the afterlife. two weeks, the official said.
By attacking Russia more deeply, analysts say, Ukraine hopes to force Russia to expand its air defense systems deep into the country so that Moscow cannot regroup its defensive weapons near the border. In this regard, army experts say, the measures serve an army goal even if radar systems are not used in warfare.
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