Russians turning destroyed Donetsk airport into launch pad for strike drones — OSINT analysts
At the russian-controlled Serhii Prokofiev Donetsk International Airport, the occupiers are working to convert the facility into a launch pad for strike drones of the Shahed type.
The Ukrainian OSINT project CyberBoroshno reported this on Saturday, August 2.
The analysts studied satellite images of the airport and found that the russians are setting up infrastructure for the use of strike drones on its territory.
The analysts found that the russians are building drone storage areas near the destroyed building of the new terminal.
Also, UAV manual control points, places for unloading drone warheads, air surveillance points and false targets are being created on the airport territory.
Besides, the occupiers are preparing a runway. This indicates that the russians want to use the airport territory for launching jet modifications of the Shaheds.
At the time of publication of the news, the Defense Forces of Ukraine did not confirm or deny this information.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, yesterday, August 2, the Security Service of Ukraine struck the launch site of the Shaheds at the Primorsko-Akhtarsk airfield in the Krasnodar Krai of the russian federation.
At the end of July, it became known that the russians are working on expanding the plant where the strike UAVs are produced.