Belarus uses aircraft to down Russian attack drone that flew into Belarus for first time.
For the first time, Belarus may have used aircraft to shoot down a Russian kamikaze drone that has flown into Belarus again.
Source: Belaruski Hajun, a Belarusian independent military monitoring project.
Details: The analysts noted that during another Russian attack on Ukraine on the night of 28-29 August, one of the Shahed attack drones flew into the territory of Belarus in Yelsk district.
Quote: "Therefore, this is probably the first recorded case when a fighter jet of the Belarusian Air Force attempted to destroy a real military target in the sky, which was a Russian Shahed kamikaze drone.".
Background: On the night of 28-29 August, Russia carried out another large-scale attack on Ukraine.
Ukrainian air defence destroyed 60 kamikaze drones and two air-to-surface missiles out of 79 targets that Russia launched. »
